rèn

recognize

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

忍 sound component

  Sound component

rěn

  

endure

Definitions

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rèn

recognize, know, understand; to recognize; to know; to admit

Most common words with 認
Freq.
Word
Meaning

认为

to believe

认识

to know

认真

earnest

承认

to admit

确认

to confirm

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*nə[n]-s

nyinH

rèn

know


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 97.1168% of movies

156th most common character in movies

213th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+8A8D


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