to know / to be aware

= + : Mnemonic symbol: Francis Bacon is attributed to have stated "scientia potentia est", "knowledge is power". I'll thus represent 知 by Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon (知) and James II of England (zh) are playing darts (矢) in front of the space station (Ø1). Because they lack a dart board they just use a mandarin (口).

知 character breakdown

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
arrow / dart / straight / to vow / to swear / old variant of 屎[shi3]

= 𠂉 + : Sherlock Holmes and the robot are playing darts in the space station. Sherlock Holmes is a sore loser and thus programmed the robot to throw keys instead of real darts.

Characters with 知 as component

wisdom / knowledge

= + : In the space station's bathroom (Ø4), the sun (日), Francis Bacon (知) and James II of England (zh) are competing for who's the most knowledgeable of them. They all present each other their smartphones (智能) on which they use apps to determine their IQ (智商). In the end it turns out that they are all retarded (弱智).
wise; wisdom
imbecile / sentimental / stupid / foolish / silly
variant of 痴[chi1]
see 蜘蛛[zhi1 zhu1]
used in 檳椥|槟椥[Bin1 zhi1]
hesitating / undecided / hesitant
old variant of 蜘[zhi1]

Words with 知

not knowing anything at all (idiom); completely ignorant / without an inkling
not known to anyone / secret / unknown
unknown / unable to find out
lit. to know one and understand half (idiom); a smattering of knowledge / dilettante / amateur
to know nothing about the beginning, the middle or the end / to know nothing at all
agnosticism, the philosophical doctrine that some questions about the universe are in principle unanswerable
a person who doesn't manage a household would not be aware how expensive it is (idiom)
lit. to reply "don't know" whatever the question (idiom) / fig. absolutely no idea of what's going on / complete ignorance
to be evident at a glance (idiom)
lit. the falling of one leaf heralds the coming of autumn (idiom) / fig. a small sign can indicate a great trend / a straw in the wind

Sentences with 知

dàn
bù
zhi̅
dà
wáng
 
 
hǎi
lǐ
kě
néng
qù
de