(shí) - to recognise, to know (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
shíTraditional: 识
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Translation
to recognise, to know (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the speech radical 讠gives the meaning of knowing or telling apart, and 只 (zhǐ) carries the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 讠 (speech radical) + 只 (zhǐ, phonetic)
Stroke order
识
Examples
。
I know him.
。
Nice to meet you.
。
We have known each other for ten years.
。
He can recognise a few characters.
。
The child has started learning to read characters.
识 (shí) means to recognise or to know and appears in 认识 (rènshi), meaning to be acquainted with someone.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 识.
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