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to know / to recognize / to be familiar with / to get acquainted with sb / knowledge / understanding / awareness / cognition
HSK 1
knowledge / CL: 門|门 / intellectual
HSK 1
common sense / general knowledge / CL: 門|门
HSK 4
consciousness; awareness / (usu. followed by ) to be aware of; to realize
HSK 5
to be total strangers (idiom)
HSK 7-9
intellectual; intelligentsia
HSK 7-9
common understanding / consensus
HSK 7-9
déjà vu (the experience of seeing exactly the same situation a second time) / seemingly familiar / apparently already acquainted
HSK 7-9
(computing) facial recognition / (cognitive pyschology) face perception
to learn to read / able to read; literate
HSK 6
subconscious mind
HSK 7-9
to distinguish; to discern; to identify; to recognize
HSK 7-9
can't recognize Mt Taishan (idiom); fig. not to recognize a famous person
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
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to know / knowledge / Taiwan pr. [shi4]
HSK 6
to be aware of; to realize
foresight
to get to know sb / to meet sb for the first time
HSK 7-9
superior judgment / sagacity
lit. don't fight, won't make friends (idiom); an exchange of blows may lead to friendship / no discord, no concord
lit. don't worry about not knowing goods, but about comparing them (proverb) / fig. goods' (or person's) true value can only be determined through comparison
background knowledge / prerequisite
to gain first-hand knowledge of sth / to experience for oneself / knowledge / experience / insight
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to lower oneself to (sb's) level
illiterate
to see through a trick
to meet (sb) for the first time; to encounter (a place, an idea etc) for the first time
lit. an old horse knows the way home (idiom); fig. in difficulty, trust an experience colleague
to get to know each other / acquaintance
HSK 7-9
identification / to identify / to recognize
to fail to see the larger issue (idiom) / to fail to grasp the big picture
image classification (computer vision)
an old horse knows the way (idiom); an experienced worker knows what to do / an old hand knows the ropes
1992 Consensus, statement issued after 1992 talks between PRC and Taiwan representatives, asserting that there is only one China
a person with knowledge and experience (idiom)
knowledge base
unable to tell good from bad (idiom) / undiscriminating
lit. not to know the true face of Lushan Mountain (idiom) / fig. can't see the forest for the trees
knowledgeable / erudite / erudition / proficient
erudition / scholarly knowledge
moral cognition / ethical awareness
unconscious / involuntary
treasure house of knowledge
radio-frequency identification (RFID)
lit. don't worry about not knowing goods, but about comparing them (proverb) / fig. goods' (or person's) true value can only be determined through comparison
ideology
lit. the eye cannot recognize the letter T (idiom); totally illiterate
epistemology
educated youth; young intellectual / (historical) urban youth with formal education who were sent to rural areas for re-education and labor during the Cultural Revolution (1960s–70s)
self-awareness
intellectual circles / intelligentsia
technical knowledge
speech recognition
unconscious mind / subconscious mind / subconsciousness
knowledgeable and versatile
preconscious / preconsciousness
anti-intellectual
general education
fail to appreciate sb's kindness / not know how to appreciate favors
consciousness
to know
(idiom) illiterate
totally illiterate
knowledge; learning / (attributive) intellectual
knowledge worker
scientific knowledge
trivia
distinctiveness; identifiability; recognizability
visionary and sagacious (idiom)
erudite / widely read and knowledgeable
phonetic awareness
to recognize talent and have great respect for it
understanding / to know what's up
sensitive / tactful
to penetrate / to see through
ability and insight
learned and erudite / knowledgeable and experienced
intellectual property rights (law)
(idiom) able to read; literate
handwriting recognition
understanding and adaptable
to be well acquainted with / to know well
Creative Commons
of great reputation but shallow in knowledge (idiom)
data link connection identifier (DLCI)
tactful / discreet
conscious
lit. to have eyes but fail to recognize Mt Tai (idiom) / fig. to fail to recognize sb important or sb's great talent / to be blind to the fact
the more knowledgeable, the more reactionary (absurd anti-intellectual slogan attributed after the event to the Gang of Four 四人幫|四人帮)
identifier
general culture
agnosia
to know shame / to feel shame (often with a negative, shameless)
don't fight, won't make friends (idiom); an exchange of blows may lead to friendship
general knowledge / overall knowledge / common knowledge / widely known / erudition
can't recognize tall or short (idiom); doesn't know what's what
public intellectual (sometimes used derogatorily)
tongue-tied for fear of embarrassment (idiom)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
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to record / to write a footnote
to know what's what

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