Chinese Character Wiki
识

shí, zhì

recognize

Simplified from 識. Phonosemantic compound. 讠 represents the meaning and 只 represents the sound.

Components
讠 meaning component

讠  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

讠 is a component form of 言.

只 sound component

只  Sound component

zhǐ, zhī

  

only

Evolution

识 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
识 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
识 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
识 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
识 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

识 (識) 

shí

recognize, understand, know; to know; knowledge; Taiwan pr. [shì]

识 (識) 

zhì

to record; to write a footnote

Most common words with 识
Freq.
Word
Meaning

认识

to know

意识

consciousness

知识

knowledge

见识

knowledge

知识产权

intellectual property rights (law)

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 86.4488% of movies

350th most common character in movies

340th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

識

Unicode

U+8BC6


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