知る

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Etymology

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *siru.

Pronunciation

Verb

知る (godan conjugation, hiragana しる, rōmaji shiru)

Japanese verb pair
active 知る
mediopassive 知れる
  1. know something
    キムさんの (でん) () (ばん) (ごう) ()っていますか。
    Kimu-san no denwabangō o shitte imasuka.
    Do you know Kim's telephone number?
    すみません、あなたの名前 (なまえ) ()りません
    Sumimasen, anata no namae o shirimasen.
    I'm sorry, I don't know your name.
  2. get to know; find; realize
    • 1944 February 8, Ango Sakaguchi, 歴史と事実 [History and Facts]:
       (われ) (われ) () (りょう)によって (れき) () ()
      Wareware wa shiryō ni yotte rekishi o shiru.
      We realize history through historic materials.
  3. tell the difference
  4. know details of something
  5. be able to understand certain feeling of someone else
  6. foresee
  7. experience
  8. know somebody
  9. have something to do with something

Conjugation

Synonyms

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References

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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