知
to know; to be aware
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #248 U+77E5
How 知 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
口 (semantic, “mouth”) + 矢 (phonetic, shǐ)
How to remember it
know · Heisig RSH #1000
矢 dart + 口 mouth
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 矢
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 矢 (shǐ) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 矢 sound component | shǐ | arrow, dart; to vow, to swear |
| 疾 | jí | sickness, illness, disease; to envy, to hate |
| 雉 | zhì | pheasant; crenellated wall |
| 彘 | zhì | swine |
| 矧 | shěn | interrogative particle; much more, still more |
Words containing 知
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 无人不知 | wú rén bù zhī | known to everybody |
| 人事不知 | rén shì bù zhī | to have lost consciousness |
| 三不知 | sān bù zhī | to know nothing about the beginning, the middle or the end; to know nothing at all |
| 不为人知 | bù wéi rén zhī | not known to anyone; secret; unknown |
| 自知之明 | zì zhī zhī míng | (idiom) self-knowledge |
| 知人知面不知心 | zhī rén zhī miàn bù zhī xīn | one may know a person for a long time without understanding his true nature (idiom) |
| 不知 | bù zhī | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) |
| 知县 | zhī xiàn | county head magistrate (old) |
| 知心 | zhī xīn | caring; intimate |
| 知情人 | zhī qíng rén | person in the know; insider; informed source |
| 无知 | wú zhī | ignorant; ignorance |
| 无所不知 | wú suǒ bù zhī | omniscient |
| 一无所知 | yī wú suǒ zhī | (idiom) not knowing anything at all; completely ignorant |
| 知会 | zhī huì | to inform; to tell; to notify; notification |
| 知无不言，言无不尽 | zhī wú bù yán , yán wú bù jìn | (lit.) not hiding anything he knows, not stopping before he has said it through (idiom); (… |
| 公知 | gōng zhī | 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 | zhī míng rén shì | public figure; celebrity |
| 学然后知不足 | xué rán hòu zhī bù zú | to learn is to know one's ignorance (the Book of Rites 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4]) |
| 不得而知 | bù dé ér zhī | unknown; unable to find out |
| 不知所之 | bù zhī suǒ zhī | whereabouts unknown |