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HSK
to tell; to inform; to let know
HSK 1
to know from experience / to learn through experience / to realize / understanding / experience
HSK 3
interest (desire to know about sth) / interest (thing in which one is interested); hobby / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
to know / to recognize / to be familiar with / to get acquainted with sb / knowledge / understanding / awareness / cognition
HSK 1
to recognize / to remember sth (or sb) on seeing it / to know
HSK 3
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  *会* | 会* | *会
can; to have the skill; to know how to / to be likely to; to be sure to / to meet; to get together / meeting; gathering / (suffix) union; group; association / (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [hui3])
HSK 1
to know; to become aware of / also pr. [zhi1dao5]
HSK 1
to understand; to know; to comprehend
HSK 2
to be familiar with; to know well
HSK 5
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  *通* | 通* | *通
to go through / to know well / (suffix) expert / to connect / to communicate / open / to clear / classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc
HSK 2
apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他誰也沒來|除了他谁也没来 "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語他也會法語|除了英语他也会法语 "in addition to English, he also knows French") / (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了 + A + 就是 + B, "either A or B")
HSK 3
hen / don't know (humorous slang mimicking Cantonese 唔知, Jyutping: m4 zi1)
HSK 6
(idiom) as everyone knows
HSK 7-9
to grasp (often fig.) / to control / to seize (initiative, opportunity, destiny) / to master / to know well / to understand sth well and know how to use it / fluency
HSK 5
to know
HSK 6
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  *识* | 识* | *识
to know / knowledge / Taiwan pr. [shi4]
HSK 6
know yourself, know your enemy (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法)
to know all the ins and outs of sth / to get to know (a place) inside out
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  *解* | 解* | *解
to divide / to break up / to split / to separate / to dissolve / to solve / to melt / to remove / to untie / to loosen / to open / to emancipate / to explain / to understand / to know / a solution / a dissection
HSK 6
(idiom) to have a superficial knowledge of a subject; to know a smattering of sth
to get to know sb / to meet sb for the first time
HSK 7-9
not to know one's place
gnosticism, the philosophical doctrine that everything about the universe is knowable
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  *知* | 知* | *知
to know / to be aware
to know sth like the back of one's hand (idiom) / to know (a person, a place etc) inside out
not to know / unaware / unknowingly / fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc)
HSK 7-9
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  *语* | 语* | *语
(literary) to tell; to let (sb) know
to have real skill / to know one's stuff
HSK 7-9
content with one's situation / to know contentment (hence happiness)
HSK 7-9
to know by heart (so well that you can recite it backwards)
worldly wisdom / the ways of the world / to know how to get on in the world
a trick / an ingenious method / know-how / the knack (of doing sth)
HSK 7-9
to announce to the world (idiom) / to make public / to let everyone know
dried food (including dried fruits, mushrooms and seafoods such as shrimp and abalone) / (fig.) (coll.) knowledge presented in readily assimilable form; just what you want to know: no more, no less (no padding 水分)
hanging in the balance / the future is hard to forecast / ¿Qué serà? / who knows what the future holds?
to do something stupid / to pretend not to know / to stare blankly
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  *认* | 认* | *认
to recognize / to know / to admit
HSK 5
to get to know each other / acquaintance
HSK 7-9
to learn is to know one's ignorance (the Book of Rites 禮記|礼记)
to know / to be informed of
secret know-how / key (to longevity) / secret (of happiness) / recipe (for success)
HSK 7-9
lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom) / both funny and extremely embarrassing / between laughter and tears
HSK 7-9
not to know the immensity of heaven and earth / an exaggerated opinion of one's own abilities
something that everybody knows
to know the enemy and know oneself (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War")
person in the know / insider / informed source
(idiom) to examine tiny clues to know general trends; to deduce the whole story from small traces
to not know what sb is driving at / to be unintelligible
what is true and what is false / (to get to know) the real situation
a wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him (idiom)
to have a plan / to know what one is doing
to know oneself / to be intimate or close / intimate friend
HSK 7-9
to know the score (idiom) / to be well aware of the situation
to know in advance
to understand tacitly (idiom) / to know intuitively / to understand thoroughly
to review the old and know the new (idiom, from the Analects) / to recall the past to understand the future
a learned person need not leave his home to know what's going on in the world (idiom)
The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).
unable to differentiate good from bad (idiom) / not to know what's good for one / unable to recognize others' good intentions
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  *悉* | 悉* | *悉
in all cases / know
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  *晓* | 晓* | *晓
dawn / daybreak / to know / to let sb know / to make explicit
a person in the know
to make known to the masses (idiom); to publicize widely / to let the world know
know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法)
that one / that thing / that (as opposed to this) / (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis) / (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word) / (used in speech as a filler, similar to "umm", "you know" etc) / (euph.) menstruation / sex / also pr. [nei4 ge5]
unidentified origin / no-one knows where it comes from / of dubious background
to know the ropes
The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).
the person who drinks it knows best whether the water is hot or cold (Zen proverb); self-awareness comes from within / to know best by personal experience
to understand tacitly (idiom) / to know intuitively / to understand thoroughly
to have a skill; to be savvy; to know how to do sth
those who understand others are clever, but those who know themselves are truly wise (idiom, from Laozi's 道德經|道德经
to know the facts / to understand / to be familiar with the situation
evidently / clearly / no wonder / knowable
at a loss to know what to do (idiom); bewildered
(literary) how is one to know?
(idiom) to quit while one is ahead; to know when to stop
to be content with one's lot (idiom) / to know one's place
to live in plenty without appreciating it (idiom); not to know when one is well off
Heaven knows!
known / what one knows
not know where to start
God knows... / Who would have imagined...?
HSK 7-9
to not know how to swim; to not be a strong swimmer
to know whether others are cold or hot (idiom) / to be very considerate
to be fully aware of / to know perfectly well
to hide one's treasure away so that no-one knows about it (idiom); fig. modest about one's talents / to hide one's light under a bushel
at a loss / confused / not know what to do next
(saying) to know that it is so but not why it is so
to know / to understand
Western skills / in Qing times, refers to Western technology, esp. military and naval know-how
lit. the duck is the first to know if the spring water is warm (idiom) / fig. an expert in the field knows which way the wind blows
lit. to hear one and know ten (idiom); fig. explain one thing and (he) understands everything / a word to the wise
to act stupid / to play dumb / to pretend to not know
to waste natural resources recklessly / not to know how to use things sparingly
(idiom) to not know the reason / (idiom) to not know what to do
to know the law and break it (idiom); consciously going against the rules
lit. to reply "don't know" whatever the question (idiom) / fig. absolutely no idea of what's going on / complete ignorance
to know what's what
to know full well; to be fully aware

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