| zhī | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的)/him/her/it |
| 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的) him her |
| 之一 | one of (sth) one out of a multitude one (third, quarter, percent etc) |
| 之上 | above |
| 之下 | under beneath less than |
| 之中 | inside |
| 之乎者也 | four common characters of classical Chinese (idiom); fig. semi-incomprehensible talk double Dutch all Greek to me |
| 之内 | inside within |
| 之前 | before prior to ago |
| 之后 | afterwards following later |
| 之外 | outside excluding |
| 之字形 | Z-shaped zigzag |
| 之所以 | the reason why |
| 之极 | The highest degree of a situation, often used after an adjective of two syllables. |
| 之流 | and his like |
| 之类 | and so on and such |
| 之至 | extremely |
| 之间 | between among inter- |
| 之际 | during at the time of |
| 之首 | first of |