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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

知情

zhīqíng

to know the facts

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to know the facts

02

to understand

03

to be familiar with the situation

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 知情 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 知情 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我对这件事知情。wǒ duì zhè jiàn shì zhī qíng。

I am well-informed about this topic.

嫌疑人对谋杀案细节显然知情一事,在本案中不得作为不利於他的证据,因为这是调查人员以诱导性提问所套出的。xián yí rén duì móu shā àn xì jié xiǎn rán zhī qíng yī shì, zài běn àn zhōng bù dé zuò wéi bù lì yú tā de zhèng jù, yīn wèi zhè shì diào chá rén yuán yǐ yòu dǎo xìng tí wèn suǒ tào chū de。

The suspect's apparent knowledge of details of the murder can't be used against him in this case since it was elicited by a leading question from the investigator.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 知情.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 知情.

Directly before

  • 事知情1
  • 显然知情1

Directly after

  • 知情一事1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 知情

What does 知情 mean in Chinese?

知情 (zhīqíng) means to know the facts.

How do you pronounce 知情?

知情 is pronounced zhīqíng.

Is 知情 an HSK word?

知情 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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