Knowledge in Chinese
knowledge · HSK 4
知识
- 知 to know
- 识 to know
Counted with 门: 一门知识
读书可以学到很多知识。 You can gain a lot of knowledge by reading.
Other ways to say knowledge
More words with 知 or 识
How do you say knowledge in Chinese?
Knowledge in Chinese is 知识 (zhī shi). You can also say 学问 (xué wen), 认识 (rèn shi), 姿势 (zī shì), 识 (shí).
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.
More free tools
Greetings: hello, good morning and goodbye. Measure words: the classifier for any noun. Tone practice: say a word and see your tones. Read any Mandarin: point at a word for its meaning.
Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.