知道
zhī dào
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
To know a fact, to be aware of something. A noun or a whole clause can follow: 我知道他是谁 'I know who he is'. The negative is 不知道 'don't know'. Being acquainted with a person or a place is a different verb, 认识, and knowing how to do something is 会.
Biết một điều gì, nắm được một thông tin. Theo sau có thể là danh từ hoặc cả một mệnh đề: 我知道他是谁 (tôi biết anh ấy là ai). Phủ định là 不知道 (không biết). Từ “biết” của tiếng Việt rộng nghĩa hơn: quen biết một người, một nơi là 认识, còn biết làm một việc gì là 会.
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “知道” mean?
To know a fact, to be aware of something. A noun or a whole clause can follow: 我知道他是谁 'I know who he is'. The negative is 不知道 'don't know'. Being acquainted with a person or a place is a different verb, 认识, and knowing how to do something is 会. Literally: know the way
Is “知道” formal or informal?
知道 is generally neutral.