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知道

知道

Chinese

Verb

知道

  1. to know (a thing); to understand; to be aware of
    我不知道。  ―  Wǒ bù zhīdào.  ―  I don't know.
    我唔知道。 [Guangzhou Cantonese]  ―  Ngo5 m4zi1 dou3. [Jyutping]  ―  I don't know.
    我知道他住哪兒。 / 我知道他住哪儿。  ―  Wǒ zhīdào tā zhù nǎr.  ―  I know where he lives.
    你知不知道他的名字？ [MSC, trad. and simp.]
    Nǐ zhī bù zhīdào tā de míngzi? [Pinyin]
    Do you know his name?
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 知道 (“to know (something)”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 知
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 知道
Mandarin Beijing 知道
Taiwan 知道
Jinan 知道
Xi'an 知道
Wuhan 曉得、找得到
Huanggang 曉得
Chengdu 曉得
Yangzhou 曉得
Hefei 曉得
Cantonese Guangzhou 知、知道
Hong Kong 知、知道
Taishan 知𡃴
Yangjiang 知、知得
Gan Nanchang 曉得
Hakka Meixian 知、知得
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 知、知得
Liudui (S. Sixian) 知、知得
Hsinchu (Hailu) 知、知得
Dongshi (Dabu) 知、知得、知著
Zhuolan (Raoping) 知、知得
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 知
Jin Taiyuan 知道、曉得
Min Bei Jian'ou 得知、曉得
Min Dong Fuzhou 捌、捌傳、曉
Min Nan Quanzhou 知、知影
Xiamen 知、知影
Zhangzhou 知、知影
Taipei 知、知影
Kaohsiung 知、知影
Malaysia 知影
Chaozhou 知
Wu Shanghai 曉得
Wenzhou 曉得
Xiang Changsha 曉得
Shuangfeng 曉得
See also
Derived terms
  • 可知道
  • 天知道

Pronunciation 2

Verb

知道

  1. (literary) to know the Tao; to know the way; to understand the principles well

Pronunciation 1

to know; to be aware
 
direction; way; method; road; path; principle; truth; reason; skill; Tao (of Taoism); a measure word; to say; to speak; to talk
simp. and trad.
(知道) 		知 道
alt. forms 知到 chiefly Cantonese
to know; to be aware
 
direction; way; method; road; path; principle; truth; reason; skill; Tao (of Taoism); a measure word; to say; to speak; to talk
simp. and trad.
(知道) 		知 道

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