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HSK
to know / to recognize / to be familiar with / to get acquainted with sb / knowledge / understanding / awareness / cognition
HSK 1
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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 tell; to inform; to let know
HSK 1
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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
to understand; to know; to comprehend
HSK 2
to know from experience / to learn through experience / to realize / understanding / experience
HSK 3
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
to recognize / to remember sth (or sb) on seeing it / to know
HSK 3
interest (desire to know about sth) / interest (thing in which one is interested); hobby / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
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
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  *认* | 认* | *认
to recognize / to know / to admit
HSK 5
to be familiar with; to know well
HSK 5
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  *识* | 识* | *识
to know / knowledge / Taiwan pr. [shi4]
HSK 6
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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
hen / don't know (humorous slang mimicking Cantonese 唔知, Jyutping: m4 zi1)
HSK 6
to know
HSK 6
secret know-how / key (to longevity) / secret (of happiness) / recipe (for success)
HSK 7-9
to get to know sb / to meet sb for the first time
HSK 7-9
to know oneself / to be intimate or close / intimate friend
HSK 7-9
to get to know each other / acquaintance
HSK 7-9
content with one's situation / to know contentment (hence happiness)
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
a trick / an ingenious method / know-how / the knack (of doing sth)
HSK 7-9
not to know / unaware / unknowingly / fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc)
HSK 7-9
God knows... / Who would have imagined...?
HSK 7-9
to have real skill / to know one's stuff
HSK 7-9
(idiom) as everyone knows
HSK 7-9
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  *知* | 知* | *知
to know / to be aware
to have kept count; to know how many; (fig.) to know exactly how things stand; to know the score / not many; only a few
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]
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  *语* | 语* | *语
(literary) to tell; to let (sb) know
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  *晓* | 晓* | *晓
dawn / daybreak / to know / to let sb know / to make explicit
evidently / clearly / no wonder / knowable
to know / to understand
to know all the ins and outs of sth / to get to know (a place) inside out
to know sth like the back of one's hand (idiom) / to know (a person, a place etc) inside out
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)
to not know what sb is driving at / to be unintelligible
to know / to be informed of
to know the facts / to understand / to be familiar with the situation
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  *悉* | 悉* | *悉
in all cases / know
knowledgeable person / know all
to know what's what
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  *谙* | 谙* | *谙
to be versed in / to know well
to know what's going on
what is true and what is false / (to get to know) the real situation
to know well; to be fully aware of
not know where to start
to talk drivel / to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact / not to know what one is talking about
to know (sth) very well / to be an expert in
(idiom) to refrain from going too far; to know when to stop
know yourself, know your enemy (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法)
lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom) / between laughter and tears
roundworm; ascarid; (esp.) Ascaris lumbricoides, a human parasite / (fig.) person who knows what another person is thinking; a mind reader
unable to differentiate good from bad (idiom) / not to know what's good for one / unable to recognize others' good intentions
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)
to understand tacitly (idiom) / to know intuitively / to understand thoroughly
to know the ropes
to make known to the masses (idiom); to publicize widely / to let the world know
(idiom) to examine tiny clues to know general trends; to deduce the whole story from small traces
to be well acquainted with / to know well
jack-of-all-trades; know-it-all
lit. not hiding anything he knows, not stopping before he has said it through (idiom) / fig. frank; outspoken
worldly wisdom / the ways of the world / to know how to get on in the world
fail to appreciate sb's kindness / not know how to appreciate favors
well cooked / to know thoroughly
to do something stupid / to pretend not to know / to stare blankly
to waste natural resources recklessly / not to know how to use things sparingly
to know by heart (so well that you can recite it backwards)
to know the law and break it (idiom); consciously going against the rules
lit. ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine (idiom); fig. to know fluently / to know sth inside out / to know sth by heart
(idiom) to know just a little; to have a rough idea
to act stupid / to play dumb / to pretend to not know
lit. not knowing what's important (idiom); no appreciation of the gravity of things / naive / doesn't know who's who / no sense of priorities
to know whether others are cold or hot (idiom) / to be very considerate
an old horse knows the way (idiom); an experienced worker knows what to do / an old hand knows the ropes
(idiom) to not know the reason / (idiom) to not know what to do
something that everybody knows
to know sth fluently / well-versed
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
to know the enemy and know oneself (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War")
to announce to the world (idiom) / to make public / to let everyone know
can't judge true or false (idiom); unable to distinguish the genuine from the fake / not to know whether to believe (what one reads in the news)
lit. an old horse knows the way home (idiom); fig. in difficulty, trust an experience colleague
(idiom) to announce to the world; to make public; to let everyone know
(neologism c. 2014) (slang) to stop striving (esp. when one knows one cannot succeed); to let it all go to hell; (sports) to tank
semiliterate / only knows words of one syllable / lit. to know only and 無|无
can't recognize tall or short (idiom); doesn't know what's what
to not know what to say; to be lost for words
to have a skill; to be savvy; to know how to do sth
Baidu Knows, online Q & A forum, zhidao.baidu.com
to know all about / to be informed of all the details
(slang) Mr. Know-it-all
not to know the immensity of heaven and earth / an exaggerated opinion of one's own abilities
person in the know / insider / informed source
epistemology (in philosophy, the theory of how we know things)
(coll.) to know the ropes / an expert
as far as I know / to the best of my knowledge
(often used in the negative in describing a young person) to have an understanding of things / to know how the world works

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