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Kanji Detail for 知 - "to know, wisdom, intelligence"

知

  • Meaning

    知 means "to know, wisdom, intelligence."

    1. Know - To have knowledge of; to understand.

    2. Wisdom - Deep understanding and insight.

    3. Intelligence - The ability to learn and understand.

    4. Realize - To become aware of; to perceive.

    5. Inform - To tell; to make known.

  • Words using 知

    • 知事 ちじ Listen prefectural governor
    • 知る しる Listen to know; to be aware (of); to be conscious (of)
    • 知らん顔 しらんかお Listen feigned ignorance; pretending not to know; pretending not to recognize (someone)
    • 県知事 けんちじ Listen prefectural governor
    • 知人 ちじん Listen friend; acquaintance
    • 知恵 ちえ Listen wisdom; wit; sagacity
    • 知的 ちてき Listen intellectual
    • 通知 つうち Listen notice; notification; report

  • Four-character idioms with 知

    • 一知半解 いっちはんかい Listen superficial knowledge; half knowledge
    • 不知不識 ふちふしき Listen being unaware of what one is doing
    • 五十知命 ごじゅうちめい Listen at age fifty, one comes to know the will of Heaven
    • 先刻承知 せんこくしょうち Listen being already (well) aware
    • 全知全能 ぜんちぜんのう Listen omniscience and omnipotence
    • 冷暖自知 れいだんじち Listen spiritual enlightenment only comes through personal experience

  • Origin of 知

    矢, the arrow, beside 口, the mouth: words that fly straight to the mark. To know is to say it and hit.

    How to remember it: An arrow 矢 loosed from the mouth 口 — the answer that strikes centre: knowing.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

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    • Verified meaning: to know, wisdom, intelligence
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read さとし, さとり, さとる, ちか)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 知

    Given names 知(さとし)Listen 知(さとり)Listen 知(さとる)Listen 知(ちか)Listen 知(とも)Listen 知(ともこ)Listen

    Surnames 知(ちさき)Listen 知(つかさ)Listen

  • Compare with other kanji that mean the same thing:

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    know; wisdom

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    know, perceive, comprehend

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to know; to be aware

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to know, to perceive, to comprehend

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Knowledge. The function by which people respond to affairs correctly and appropriately. All the heart's sensation, cognition, discrimination, judgment, speculation, and memory are called 知. | Being acquainted is called 知. Hence friends are called 知交. | To be in charge. The person in charge is called 知. In the old official system, 知府 (prefect) and 知縣 (county magistrate) all have this meaning. | To be recognized. Such as being recognized for one's skills is called 受知. | Same as 智. The 智 of wisdom in the classics and commentaries is often written as 知.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    chi(チ) チ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    shi.raseru(し-らせる) し-らせる

    shi.ru(しる) しる

  • Strokes

    tip

    8 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    矢 (ya・yahen)

  • Related Keywords

    to know wisdom intelligence acquaintance inform realize understanding awareness cognition comprehension consciousness discernment education erudition expertise familiarity insight judgment learn perception knowledge

Sentences including 知

  • I do not know how to drive a car.

  • Did you inform your teacher of this?

  • I don't know where my watch is.

  • Few know the truth of the matter.

  • It is the fact that i want to know.

  • Do you happen to know his name?

  • We thought that the message was true.

  • How should i know?

  • I know it well enough.

  • It won't be long before we know the truth.

Sentences from Japanese classical masterpieces

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