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意识

yì shí 4–2

consciousness; awareness; to be aware; to realize

HSK level
HSK 5
HSK 2.0 level 6 · HSK 3.0 level 5
Characters
2
意 · 识
Syllables
2
yì shí
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,263

Part of speech: n,v

Character by character

  • 意yì13 strokesHSK 2thought, idea, opinion; think
  • 识shí7 strokesHSK 1 traditional 識recognize, understand, know

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 意识. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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