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knowledge / CL: 門|门 / intellectual
HSK 1
to know; to become aware of / also pr. [zhi1dao5]
HSK 1
well-known; famous
HSK 6
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
perception / consciousness
HSK 7-9
intellectual / intelligentsia / learned person
HSK 7-9
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  *知* | 知* | *知
to know / to be aware
knowledge base
county head magistrate (old)
cicada (onom.)
to know / to understand
to know / to be informed of
to know the facts / to understand / to be familiar with the situation
senior provincial government official in dynastic China
to inform / to tell / to notify / notification
know yourself, know your enemy (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法)
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)
prefectural magistrate (during Tang to Qing times)
caring / intimate
satisfied with what one has (idiom)
lit. not hiding anything he knows, not stopping before he has said it through (idiom) / fig. frank; outspoken
to act tactfully / tactful / discreet
knowing the enemy and yourself will get you unscathed through a hundred battles (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War")
educated and well-balanced (idiom)
to know the law and break it (idiom); consciously going against the rules
intimate friend
to know whether others are cold or hot (idiom) / to be very considerate
to be well-mannered
to know the enemy and know oneself (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War")
lit. the kindness of recognizing sb's worth and employing him (idiom) / patronage / protection
Zhihu, Chinese Q&A website modeled on Quora, at zhihu.com, launched in Jan 2011
person in the know / insider / informed source
public figure / celebrity
nobody understands one's son better than his father (idiom)
one may know a person for a long time without understanding his true nature (idiom)
Creative Commons
intimate friend / soul mate
informed consent
Anemarrhena asphodeloides / rhyzome of Anemarrhena (used in TCM)
(coll.) newly-emerged cicada nymph
easy to grasp but difficult to put into practice (idiom) / easier said than done
epistemology
to have a sense of shame
treasure house of knowledge
to keep going resolutely despite knowing the task is impossible (idiom)
reputation / profile / familiarity in the public consciousness
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)
(saying) to know that it is so but not why it is so
to know very little about
(idiom) expert at appointing people according to their abilities; to put the right people in the right places
those who understand others are clever, but those who know themselves are truly wise (idiom, from Laozi's 道德經|道德经
ungrateful
(idiom) to know how to be economical
redbreast / robin
ability to perceive / perceptivity / sentience
knowledge worker
intellectual property rights (law)
intellectual circles / intelligentsia
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)
to acknowledge one's faults and correct them (idiom)
OK! / Got it!
to recognize one's mistakes and be able to reform oneself (idiom)
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
educated youth (esp. those sent to work in rural areas during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. for 知識青年|知识青年)


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