Chinese Character Wiki
智

zhì

wisdom, knowledge

Phonosemantic compound. 知 represents the sound and 甘 represents the meaning..

Components
知 sound,meaning component

知  Sound Meaning component

zhī

  

know

甘 meaning component

甘  Meaning component

gān

  

sweetness

Depicts a mouth.

Evolution

智 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
智 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
智 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
智 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
智 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

智  

zhì

wisdom, knowledge, intelligence; wisdom; knowledge

Most common words with 智
Freq.
Word
Meaning

智慧

wisdom

理智

reason

智能

able

智

wisdom

明智

sensible

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tre-s

trjeH

zhì

knowledge


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 35.3516% of movies

1064th most common character in movies

885th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+667A

Shuowen

“，識詞也。从白，从亏，从知。，古文。”


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