Kilo Lingo

(shí) - to recognise, to know (bound morpheme) in Mandarin

shí

Traditional: 识

Line drawing of 识
Coloured illustration of 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

Stroke order for 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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This word is part of lesson 104.