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知 — stroke order
Watch how to write 知 (zhī) stroke by stroke. 知 has 8 strokes and means “to know”. It appears in common words such as 知道 (to know) and 知識 (intellectual). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 知
The most common words that use 知 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
知道zhīdàoto know知識zhīshiintellectual通知tōngzhīto notify知足zhīzúcontent with one's situation知心zhīxīncaring知己zhījǐto know oneself
How 知 is written
- Radical
- 矢
- Components
- 矢 ＋ 口
- Formation
- Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 口 and a phonetic component 矢 (mouth).