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Mythic Mandarin

知情 (zhī qíng): meaning and stroke order

知情 (zhī qíng) means to know the facts, to understand, to be familiar with the situation.

知情

Simplified
知情
Traditional
知情 (same form)
Pinyin
zhī qíng

Stroke order of 知情

知

  • zhī to know; to be aware
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

情

  • qíng (bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion; (bound form) situation; condition
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 知情

  1. zhī qíng
    • to know the facts
    • to understand
    • to be familiar with the situation

Radicals of the characters

知
Radical 矢 (Kangxi radical 111) · 8 strokes · 矢 on the left, 口 on the right
情
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 11 strokes · 忄 on the left, 青 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

知情 in our stories

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  • 可是那个邻居一口咬定自己毫不知情，说案发那天晚上一直在家睡觉，官员也找不到任何证据。

    kěshì nà gè línjū yìkǒuyǎodìng zìjǐ háobù zhīqíng shuō ànfā nà tiān wǎnshang yìzhí zài jiā shuìjiào guānyuán yě zhǎo bú dào rènhé zhèngjù

    But the neighbour insisted he knew nothing and said he had been asleep at home all that night, and the official could find no evidence at all.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 知情

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).