Chinese symbol for “knowing”
会心
huì xīn
Traditional: 會心
knowing (of a smile, look etc)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for knowing is 会心 (huì xīn), defined as: knowing (of a smile, look etc).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “knowing”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 会意 (會意) | huì yì | combined ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六书 (liù shū) of forming Chinese characters); Chinese character that combines the meanings of existing elements |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 会心.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 社会 (社會) | shè huì | society |
| 不会 (不會) | bù huì | improbable; unlikely |
| 会议 (會議) | huì yì | meeting; conference |
| 委员会 (委員會) | wěi yuán huì | committee; commission |
| 机会 (機會) | jī huì | opportunity; chance |
| 协会 (協會) | xié huì | an association; a society |
| 中心 | zhōng xīn | center; heart; core |
| 担心 (擔心) | dān xīn | anxious; worried |
See also: Japanese symbol for “knowing”.
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.