知
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to know; to be aware
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 矢 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 知
- Common rank
- #248
- Unicode
- U+77E5
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Formation & memory
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Words with 知
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 知道 | to know; to become aware of; also pr. [zhi1dao5] | |
| 知识 | knowledge; CL:門|门[men2]; intellectual | |
| 无人不知 | known to everybody | |
| 人事不知 | to have lost consciousness | |
| 三不知 | to know nothing about the beginning, the middle or the end; to know nothing at all | |
| 不为人知 | not known to anyone; secret; unknown | |
| 自知之明 | (idiom) self-knowledge | |
| 知人知面不知心 | one may know a person for a long time without understanding his true nature (idiom) | |
| 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 知县 | county head magistrate (old) | |
| 知心 | caring; intimate | |
| 知情人 | person in the know; insider; informed source | |
| 无知 | ignorant; ignorance | |
| 无所不知 | omniscient | |
| 一无所知 | (idiom) not knowing anything at all; completely ignorant | |
| 知会 | to inform; to tell; to notify; notification | |
| 知无不言，言无不尽 | (lit.) not hiding anything he knows, not stopping before he has said it through (idiom); (… | |
| 公知 | public intellectual (sometimes used derogatorily) (abbr. for 公共知識分子|公共知识分子[gong1 gong4 zhi… | |
| 知名人士 | public figure; celebrity | |
| 学然后知不足 | to learn is to know one's ignorance (the Book of Rites 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4]) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 矢 — compare how they read.