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漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

識: discriminating, know

Also: write

JLPT N319 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met

言 carries the meaning · 戠 gives the sound

19 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

シキshiki · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 知識ちしきknowledge
  • 常識じょうしきcommon sense
  • 良識りょうしきgood sense
  • 認識するにんしきするrecognize
  • 意識するいしきするbe aware of
  • 識別するしきべつするdiscriminate

Also read しる, しるす, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)言 say (meaning) + 戠 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 識 (rev. 92201787), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Words flowing from the heart and into the world! The lines radiating upward show the power of the voice as it leaves the mouth.”
More in the 言 speech story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
言

Also built on speech (言)

All 72
戠

Also built on 戠

The 戠 family reads ショク (shoku); 識 is read シキ.

Also read シキ

4 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
識 discriminating · 言
vs職 post · 耳
識 has 言 where 職 has 耳.
In ChineseSimplified 识 · traditional, as in Japanese · shí, shì

Japan keeps the traditional form 識; mainland China simplifies it to 识.

Simplified
识 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
識 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin shí, shì most common readings

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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