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Know well in Chinese

to know well · HSK 3

了解 liǎo jiě

  1. 了 le marks a completed action
  2. 解 jiě to separate

我很了解他的性格。 I know his personality very well.

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How do you say know well in Chinese?

Know well in Chinese is 了解 (liǎo jiě).

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?

The CC-CEDICT 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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