Sinograph Addenda · Signs

know

Name	know
Reads	zhī
Means	to know, to understand
Taught in	06 · Knowing and walking

Where it comes from

The mouth 口 for the saying, the arrow 矢 close beside the sound: the received account hears knowing as the word that flies straight to its mark. Rank 52, and the classical verb of understanding. Taught in the knowing-and-walking chapter.

How to remember it

What you know, you can say as straight as an arrow flies. Arrow plus mouth — aim before you speak.

In the wild

人不知而不慍。rén bù zhī ér bù yùn"to go unrecognized — and not resent it" — worth that does not need an audience; 知 in the Analects' opening page

Analects 1.1. urn:nabu:kanripo:KR1h0004:001:1a · license: attribution.