Chinese Character Wiki
識

shí, zhì

recognize

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 戠 represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

戠 sound component

戠  Sound component

zhī, zhí

  

to gather

Evolution

識 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
識 Regular script Modern

Regular 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 識
Freq.
Word
Meaning

认识

to know

意识

consciousness

知识

knowledge

见识

knowledge

知识产权

intellectual property rights (law)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-tək

syik

shí

know

*tək-s

tsyiH

zhì

remember, commemorate


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 86.4488% of movies

350th most common character in movies

340th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

识

Unicode

U+8B58

Shuowen

“識，常也。一曰知也。从言，戠聲。”


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