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knowledge / CL: 門|门 / intellectual
HSK 1
to know / to recognize / to be familiar with / to get acquainted with sb / knowledge / understanding / awareness / cognition
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 learn to read / able to read; literate
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *識* | 識* | *識
to know / knowledge / Taiwan pr. [shi4]
HSK 6
déjà vu (the experience of seeing exactly the same situation a second time) / seemingly familiar / apparently already acquainted
HSK 7-9
to distinguish; to discern; to identify; to recognize
HSK 7-9
common understanding / consensus
HSK 7-9
subconscious mind
HSK 7-9
to gain first-hand knowledge of sth / to experience for oneself / knowledge / experience / insight
HSK 7-9
to get to know sb / to meet sb for the first time
HSK 7-9
to get to know each other / acquaintance
HSK 7-9
to be total strangers (idiom)
HSK 7-9
intellectual / intelligentsia / learned person
HSK 7-9
to identify / to detect
erudite / widely read and knowledgeable
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *識* | 識* | *識
to record / to write a footnote
It is a great honor to meet you.
stream of consciousness (in literature)
epistemology
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
1992 Consensus, statement issued after 1992 talks between PRC and Taiwan representatives, asserting that there is only one China
sensitive / tactful
intellectual property rights (law)
knowledge base
general education
to be aware of; to realize
unconscious mind / subconscious mind / subconsciousness
ID badge (on a lanyard etc) (Tw)
to be well acquainted with / to know well
to penetrate / to see through
erudition / scholarly knowledge
perceptual awareness
to appreciate / to recognize the worth of sth / appreciation
knowledge; learning / (attributive) intellectual
unconscious / involuntary
(idiom) experienced and knowledgeable
(idiom) to lower oneself to (sb's) level
to know what's what
to know
courage and insight
to have a clear view of things / to adapt to circumstances
to gain knowledge and experience
lit. don't fight, won't make friends (idiom); an exchange of blows may lead to friendship / no discord, no concord
(idiom) able to read; literate
general course / general education course / core course / general curriculum / general education curriculum / core curriculum
fail to appreciate sb's kindness / not know how to appreciate favors
ideology
speech recognition
lit. the eye cannot recognize the letter T (idiom); totally illiterate
to show no understanding of the times (idiom); cannot adapt to current circumstances / not amenable to reason
epistemology (in philosophy, the theory of how we know things)
cognition / rational knowledge
an old horse knows the way (idiom); an experienced worker knows what to do / an old hand knows the ropes
Yogachara school of Buddhism ("consciousness only" school of Buddhism)
visionary and sagacious (idiom)
foresight
ability and insight
intellectual circles / intelligentsia
superior judgment / sagacity
optical character recognition (OCR)
phonetic awareness
(idiom) a wise person adapts to changing circumstances
variant of 標誌|标志
knowledgeable / erudite / erudition / proficient
preconscious / preconsciousness
handwriting recognition
totally illiterate
learned and erudite / knowledgeable and experienced
can't recognize Mt Taishan (idiom); fig. not to recognize a famous person
erudite and sophisticated
an outstanding talent (idiom) / surpassing insight and acumen
knowledge and experience
to know shame / to feel shame (often with a negative, shameless)
agnosia
(idiom) illiterate
can't recognize tall or short (idiom); doesn't know what's what
knowledge worker
general knowledge / overall knowledge / common knowledge / widely known / erudition
semiliterate / only knows words of one syllable / lit. to know only and 無|无
don't fight, won't make friends (idiom); an exchange of blows may lead to friendship
understanding and adaptable
to recognize talent and have great respect for it
understanding / to know what's up
knowledgeable and versatile
unable to tell good from bad (idiom) / undiscriminating
It is a great honor to meet you and I regret it is not sooner
of great reputation but shallow in knowledge (idiom)
self-awareness
to acquire knowledge
Creative Commons
identifier
scientific knowledge
illiterate
to recognize talent
image classification (computer vision)
technical knowledge

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