zhì
wisdom, knowledge
Phonosemantic compound. 知 represents the sound and 甘 represents the meaning..
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tre-s | trjeH | zhì | knowledge |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 35.3516% of movies
1064th most common character in movies
885th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+667A |
Shuowen | “,識詞也。从白,从亏,从知。,古文。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.277
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