HSK 6 · Ideas

觉悟 juéwù “awareness” in Chinese

Traditional 覺悟

What 觉悟 means

  1. awareness
  2. consciousness
  3. to come to understand
  4. to realise
  5. Buddhist enlightenment (Sanskrit: cittotpāda)

How to say 觉悟

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale觉jué2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale悟wù4th tone, falling

觉悟 in a sentence

  1. 他终于觉悟到自己错了。

    Tā zhōngyú juéwù dào zìjǐ cuò le.

    He finally realised he was wrong.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 保护环境需要每个人提高觉悟。

    Bǎohù huánjìng xūyào měi ge rén tígāo juéwù.

    Protecting the environment needs everyone to become more aware.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 觉悟 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 觉 (jué) with each of its parts in a different colour
觉juéto feel
  • ⺍small form of 小 · xiǎoSound part
  • 冖cover · mì
  • 见to see · jiànMeaning part

见 hints at the meaning (to see); ⺍ (xiǎo) hints at the sound. Compare it with jué.

The character 悟 (wù) with each of its parts in a different colour
悟wùto comprehend
  • 忄heart form of 心 · xīnMeaning part
  • 吾I · wúSound part

忄 hints at the meaning (heart); 吾 (wú) hints at the sound. Compare it with wù.

How to write 觉悟

觉 9 strokes · 悟 10 strokes

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觉悟 (juéwù) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 觉悟 (juéwù). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 觉悟

Words with 觉

睡觉shuìjiào · to sleep觉得juéde · to feel感觉gǎnjué · feeling自觉zìjué · conscious嗅觉xiùjué · sense of smell知觉zhījué · perception发觉fājué · to discover觉醒juéxǐng · to awaken

Words with 悟

领悟lǐngwù · to comprehend恍然大悟huǎngrándàwù · to suddenly realise

More words: Ideas & Concepts

迹象jìxiàng · sign机遇jīyù · opportunity局部júbù · part举动jǔdòng · act觉醒juéxǐng · to awaken局面júmiàn · situation局势júshì · situation (esp. political or military)举世瞩目jǔshìzhǔmù · to attract worldwide attention

FAQs

觉悟 (juéwù) means “awareness” or “consciousness”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it juéwù: jué with a 2nd tone, then wù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 觉悟 is written 覺悟. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type juewu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 觉悟 from the suggestions. Typing juewu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
觉悟 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.