知

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

知 (radical 111 矢+3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 人大口 (OKR), four-corner 8640₀, composition ⿰矢口)

1. know, perceive, comprehend

Descendants

• ち

See also

• 呹

References

• KangXi: page 824, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23935
• Dae Jaweon: page 1235, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2581, character 2
• Unihan data for U+77E5

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Cantonese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsiː˥/

Hanzi

知 (Jyutping zi1, Yale ji1, ji3)

1. know, understand

Verb

知 (traditional and simplified, Jyutping zi1)

1. to know

   唔知。

   m4 zi1 (Jyutping)

   m̀h jī (Yale)

   (I) don't know.

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Japanese

Kanji

知

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. to know

Readings

• Goon: ち (chi)
• Kan’on: ち (chi)
• Kun: しる (shiru), しらせる (shiraseru)
• Nanori: とも (tomo)

Compounds

• 知性 (ちせい, chisei): the mind
• 感知 (かんち, kanchi): perception
• 英知
• 機知
• 知恵
• 知能
• 知謀
• 無知
• 理知

Derived terms

• お知らせ, 御知らせ (おしらせ, oshirase)

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Korean

Hanja

知 (ji) (hangeul [[지]], revised ji, McCune-Reischauer chi, Yale ci)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

知 (Pinyin zhī (zhi1), Wade-Giles chih¹)

Compounds

• 知道

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Min Nan

Hanzi

知 (TLPA ti (ti¹), tsai (tsai¹))

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Vietnamese

Han character

知 (tri, trơ)