Awareness in Chinese
awareness · HSK 5
意识
- 意 idea
- 识 to know
他摔倒后失去了意识。 He lost consciousness after falling.
Other ways to say awareness
More words with 意 or 识
How do you say awareness in Chinese?
Awareness in Chinese is 意识 (yì shí). You can also say 认知 (rèn zhī).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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