Chinese symbol for “intuition”
直觉
zhí jué
Traditional: 直覺
intuition
The closest CC-CEDICT match for intuition is 直觉 (zhí jué), defined as: intuition.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “intuition”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 直感 | zhí gǎn | intuition; direct feeling or understanding |
| 预见 (預見) | yù jiàn | to foresee; to predict |
| 第六感觉 (第六感覺) | dì liù gǎn jué | sixth sense; intuition |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 直觉.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一直 | yī zhí | straight (in a straight line); continuously; always; all the way through |
| 直接 | zhí jiē | directly; direct |
| 直到 | zhí dào | until |
| 直播 | zhí bō | (TV, radio) to broadcast live; live broadcast |
| 简直 (簡直) | jiǎn zhí | simply; really |
| 直升机 (直升機) | zhí shēng jī | helicopter; measure word: 架 (jià) |
| 觉得 (覺得) | jué de | to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc) |
| 感觉 (感覺) | gǎn jué | feeling; impression; sensation; to feel; to perceive |
See also: Japanese symbol for “intuition”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.