Shareables · HSK 2 · 形 · Easy to confuse
形近 · Characters that look like 知
知 next to 细、抽、恤 — one stroke apart, nothing else in common.
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知zhīto know/to be aware
形近字 · LOOK ALIKE, READ DIFFERENTLY
Same shape at a glance. Different sound, different meaning.
| Character | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 知 | zhī | to know/to be aware |
| 细 | xì | thin or slender/finely particulate/thin and soft/fine/delicate/trifling/(of a sound) quiet/frugal |
| 抽 | chōu | to draw out/to pull out from in between/to remove part of the whole/(of certain plants) to sprout or bud/to whip or thrash |
| 恤 | xù | variant of 恤[xu4]/anxiety/sympathy/to sympathize/to give relief/to compensate |
| 枷 | jiā | cangue (wooden collar like stocks used to restrain and punish criminals in China) |
| 拗 | ào | variant of 拗[ao4]/(dialect) to twist; to bend (in order to break sth or form it into a shape)/(bound form) intractable; contrary; disobedient/stubborn; perverse; contrary |
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