知道

Character by character

• 知zhī8 strokesHSK 1know, perceive, comprehend
• 道dào13 strokesHSK 1path, road, street; method, way

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

Example sentences

• 想知道？

  Xiǎng zhī dào

  Want to know?

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• 我知道。

  Wǒ zhī dào

  I know.

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• 不知道。

  Bù zhī dào

  Don't know.

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• 我知道了！

  Wǒ zhī dào le

  I understand!

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Words with the same characters

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

• 道dàoHSK 2

  road; path; principle; truth; morality; reason; skill; method; Dao (of Daoism); to say; to speak; to talk; classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process; (old) circuit (administrative division)

• 报道bào dàoHSK 3

  to report (news); report

• 难道nán dàoHSK 3

  don't tell me ...; could it be that...?

• 通知tōng zhīHSK 2

  to notify; to inform; notice; notification

• 不知bù zhīHSK 7

  not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc)

• 味道wèi daoHSK 2

  flavor; taste; (fig.) feeling (of ...); sense (of ...); hint (of ...); (fig.) interest; delight; (dialect) smell; odor

• 知识zhī shiHSK 1

  knowledge; intellectual

• 道路dào lùHSK 2

  road; path; way

• 道德dào déHSK 5

  virtue; morality; ethics

• 道理dào liHSK 2

  reason; argument; sense; principle; basis; justification

• 频道pín dàoHSK 5

  frequency; (television) channel

• 道歉dào qiànHSK 6

  to apologize

• 通道tōng dàoHSK 6

  (communications) channel; thoroughfare; passage

• 得知dé zhīHSK 7

  to find out; to learn of

• 街道jiē dàoHSK 4

  street; subdistrict; residential district

• 大道dà dàoHSK 6

  main street; avenue

• 知名zhī míngHSK 6

  well-known; famous

• 轨道guǐ dàoHSK 6

  track (for trains etc); orbit (of a satellite); (fig.) a person's established path in life; desired trajectory (of a business or other endeavor); (audio engineering) track; (quantum mechanics) orbital

• 告知gào zhīHSK 7

  to inform

• 管道guǎn dàoHSK 6

  tubing; pipeline; (fig.) channel; means

• 隧道suì dàoHSK 7

  tunnel

• 渠道qú dàoHSK 6

  irrigation ditch; (fig.) channel; means

• 地道dì daoHSK 7

  authentic; genuine; proper

• 说道shuō dàoHSK 7

  to state; to say (the quoted words)