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知 kanji
know, wisdom
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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チ
Kun readings
しるしらせる
Words with 知
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —認知療法cognitive therapy
- —解雇通知dismissal notice; pink slip (US)
- —知恵の輪disentanglement puzzle; wire puzzle
- —機知縦横being very witty; very ingenious and resourceful
- —世間周知common knowledge; widely known; known to everybody
- —知己朋友intimate friends and acquaintances
- —知行合一awareness comes only through practice
- —知者不惑a wise person always follows the right course; a wise man never wavers
- —知勇兼備having both wisdom and courage
- —天下周知common knowledge; widely known; known to everybody
- —半知半解superficial knowledge; half knowledge
- —知的障害intellectual disability; mental disability; intellectual impairment
- —奸佞邪知wiles and cunning; craftiness and treachery
- —知恵才覚having wisdom and resources; being clever and talented
- —知恵分別wisdom and good (common sense) judgment
- —一行知識one-line fact; one-line information; information (explanation) provided in a few scanty words
- —見聞覚知perception through the six senses (of sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and consciousness)
- —五十知命at age fifty, one comes to know the will of Heaven
- —才知縦横resourceful and quick-witted; showing a flash of brilliance; having a keen intellect
- —先刻承知being already (well) aware