知
/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•to know; to understand; to comprehend · to cause to know; to tell; to inform · to administer; to take charge of
Etimoloji
Originally the same character as 智, used interchangeably. In oracle bone inscriptions, ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 大 (“adult”) + 口 (“mouth”) + 子 (“child”) – to transmit knowledge. In the Warring States period, 大 corrupted into 矢 (OC *hliʔ) and became a sound component. In Western Han script the component 子 started being dropped, arriving at the modern form. The two pronunciations are cognate.…