zhì

(literary) salary according to rank

(literary) an official's rank; (literary) order; orderliness; (literary) decade

grain (禾) + sound (失) = orderly rank and salary

Officials in ancient China were paid in grain according to their rank, so 禾 anchors the idea of orderly, tiered distribution. 失 mainly lends the sound zhì and carries no semantic weight here.

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社会的序需要每个人共同维护。

shè huì de zhì xù xū yào měi gè rén gòng tóng wéi hù。

The order of society requires every person to maintain it together.

这个城市的交通序越来越好了。

zhè ge chéng shì de jiāo tōng zhì xù yuè lái yuè hǎo le。

The traffic order of this city has been getting better and better.

Words with 秩

公共秩序

gōng gòng zhì xù

public order

品秩

pǐn zhì

(old) rank and salary of an official post

无秩序

wú zhì xù

disorder

禄秩

lù zhì

official rank and pay

秩序

zhì xù

order; orderliness (in society, in the classroom, on the roads etc)

秩序井然

zhì xù jǐng rán

in perfect order

秩序美

zhì xù měi

order (as an aesthetic quality)

秩然不紊

zhì rán bù wěn

to be in complete order (idiom)

秩禄

zhì lù

official salaries

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