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to know; to become aware of / also pr. [zhi1dao5]
HSK 1
knowledge / CL: 門|门 / intellectual
HSK 1
to notify / to inform / notice / notification / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
written notice
HSK 4
well-known; famous
HSK 6
ignorant / ignorance
HSK 7-9
not to know / unaware / unknowingly / fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc)
HSK 7-9
to find out / to learn of
HSK 7-9
perception / consciousness
HSK 7-9
to inform
HSK 7-9
to know oneself / to be intimate or close / intimate friend
HSK 7-9
content with one's situation / to know contentment (hence happiness)
HSK 7-9
(idiom) as everyone knows
HSK 7-9
(idiom) not knowing anything at all; completely ignorant
HSK 7-9
unknown number / (fig.) an unknown; an uncertainty
HSK 7-9
(idiom) (it) goes without saying; can well be imagined
HSK 7-9
cognition / cognitive / understanding / perception / awareness / to be cognizant of / to recognize / to realize
HSK 7-9
unknown / unable to find out
HSK 7-9
God knows... / Who would have imagined...?
HSK 7-9
who would have thought that ...?
HSK 7-9
HSK 7-9
not known to anyone / secret / unknown
HSK 7-9
intellectual / intelligentsia / learned person
HSK 7-9
perception (the process of perceiving sth with the senses) / to sense; to feel; to detect; to be aware of
anxious to learn / keen for knowledge
key information / instructions / it must be borne in mind
intellectual property rights (law)
Aichi prefecture, central Japan
to be fully aware of / to know perfectly well
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to know / to be aware
reputation / profile / familiarity in the public consciousness
(idiom) unconsciously; unwittingly
to know / to be informed of
knowledge base
to know / to understand
who would have thought / unexpectedly
known / what one knows
to know well; to be fully aware of
to anticipate / to foresee
to know the facts / to understand / to be familiar with the situation
intimate friend / soul mate
to inform / to tell / to notify / notification
notification / notice / ticket / receipt
little imagined / scarcely realized
to have lost consciousness
a close friend over many years
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 be well aware
evidently / clearly / no wonder / knowable
(idiom) to know that it is so but not why it is so
to be well acquainted with
not knowing what to do (idiom); at one's wits' end / embarrassed and at a complete loss
to realize in hindsight; to realize belatedly; to be late to the party
county head magistrate (old)
not to know the immensity of heaven and earth / an exaggerated opinion of one's own abilities
rarely known to anyone (idiom); almost unknown / secret to all but a few
to learn of (an event) / to hear about (sth)
government sub-prefect (old)
lit. not hiding anything he knows, not stopping before he has said it through (idiom) / fig. frank; outspoken
(idiom) to ask a question, already knowing the answer
to have a sense of shame
to be totally oblivious (to sth) / to have no idea about sth
lit. to sound out the difficulties and retreat to avoid defeat (idiom) / fig. to back out of an awkward situation; to get out on finding out what it's really like
just as distance determines the stamina of a horse, so does time reveal a person's true heart (proverb)
person in the know / insider / informed source
known to everybody
public figure / celebrity
penetrating insight
desire for knowledge
educated youth (sent to work in farms during the Cultural Revolution), abbr. for 知識青年|知识青年
redbreast / robin
omniscient
caring / intimate
somehow
(idiom) to examine tiny clues to know general trends; to deduce the whole story from small traces
stupid and ignorant (idiom)
meeting an old friend in a foreign place (idiom)
lit. to eat without tasting the food / worried or downhearted (idiom)
having foresight / a person of foresight
easy to grasp but difficult to put into practice (idiom) / easier said than done
to live in plenty without appreciating it (idiom); not to know when one is well off
known by everyone (idiom); well known / a household name
one may know a person for a long time without understanding his true nature (idiom)
to be content with what one is
epistemology
not knowing when to come or leave (idiom); with no sense of propriety
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
benighted (idiom) / ignorant
lit. to hear one and know ten (idiom); fig. explain one thing and (he) understands everything / a word to the wise
intellectual circles / intelligentsia
to consider sb as close friend (idiom); to take into one's confidence
Rizhilu or Record of daily study, by early Confucian philosopher Gu Yanwu 顧炎武|顾炎武
(literary) how is one to know?
to review the old and know the new (idiom, from the Analects) / to recall the past to understand the future
nobody understands one's son better than his father (idiom)
ungrateful
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
lit. to reply "don't know" whatever the question (idiom) / fig. absolutely no idea of what's going on / complete ignorance
a thousand cups of wine is not too much when best friends meet (idiom) / when you're with close friends, you can let your hair down

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