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


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