知
Meanings
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- 1.to know
- 2.to be aware
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Wiktionary
- 1.to know; to understand; to comprehend
- 2.to cause to know; to tell; to inform
- 3.to administer; to take charge of
- 4.to distinguish
- 5.to appreciate
- 6.to be close friends; close friends
- 7.to perceive
- 8.to participate in; to have a hand in
- 9.to hear; to listen
- 10.knowledge
- 11.(Chinese linguistics) /tr/~/ʈ/, the Middle Chinese initial of 知 (MC trje)
- 12.Original form of 智 (zhì, “knowing, wisdom, intelligence”).
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Etymology
Originally the same character as 智, used interchangeably. In oracle bone inscriptions, ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 大 (“adult”) + 口 (“mouth”) + 子 (“child”) – to transmit knowledge. In the Warring States period, 大 corrupted into 矢 (OC *hliʔ) and became a sound component. In Western Han script the component 子 started being dropped, arriving at the modern form. The two pronunciations are cognate. The word is possibly of Sino-Tibetan origin, compare Mizo hria, hriat (“to know”), Jingpho chye (“to know”), Tibetan རིག (rig, “to know”) (Schuessler, 2007). Cognate with 智 (OC *ʔl'es).
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Components
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Example sentences
無知就是幸福。
Ignorance is bliss.
知識就是力量。
Knowledge is power.
全知是不可能的。
It's not possible to know everything.
全知是不可能的。
It isn't possible to know everything.
我知道很多關於船的知識。
I know a lot about ships.
我要说的只能是你知我知。
What I'm about to say is strictly between you and me.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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