(rèn) - to recognise, to know, to acknowledge in Mandarin
rènTraditional: 認
Translation
to recognise, to know, to acknowledge
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the speech radical 讠relates to acknowledging in words, and 人 (rén) supplies the sound, giving the meaning of to recognise or admit.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 讠(speech radical) + 人 (rén, phonetic)
Stroke order
认
Examples
。
Pleased to meet you.
。
I think he's right.
。
She does things very seriously.
。
He admitted this mistake.
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I acknowledge you as my teacher.
认 (rèn) means to recognise or to acknowledge. It anchors several high-frequency mental-state verbs: 认识 (to know, to be acquainted with), 认为 (to think, to believe), 认真 (serious, conscientious), and 承认 (to admit).
Appears in 5 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 认.
Used in
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