HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Thinking

认得 rènde “to recognise” in Chinese

Traditional 認得

What 认得 means

  1. to recognise
  2. to know
  3. to remember sth (or sb) on seeing it

How to say 认得

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale认rèn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own得deneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

认得 in a sentence

  1. 房子里面的人我一个也不认得。

    Fángzi lǐmiàn de rén wǒ yí ge yě bú rènde.

    I didn’t recognise anyone in the house.

    Sentence #8591278 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 过了这么多年，不知道她还认得我吗？

    Guò le zhème duō nián, bù zhīdao tā hái rènde wǒ ma?

    After all these years, I wonder if she’ll still recognise me.

    Sentence #390404 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 我们认得这首歌。

    Wǒmen rènde zhè shǒu gē.

    We know this song.

    Sentence #10329367 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 认得 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 认 (rèn) with each of its parts in a different colour
认rènto recognise
  • 讠speech form of 言 · yánMeaning part
  • 人person · rénSound part

讠 hints at the meaning (speech); 人 (rén) hints at the sound. Compare it with rèn.

Memory aidSpeech 讠 and a person 人: to recognise someone, to know them.

The character 得 (de) with each of its parts in a different colour
得destructural particle: used after a verb
  • 彳step · chì
  • 旦dawn · dàn
  • 寸inch · cùn

Memory aidA hand 寸 picking up a shell, once used as money, while out on the road 彳: to get.

How to write 认得

认 4 strokes · 得 11 strokes

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

Words related to 认得

Words with 认

认识rènshi · to know (someone)认为rènwéi · believe认真rènzhēn · serious承认chéngrèn · to admit否认fǒurèn · to declare to be untrue确认quèrèn · to confirm辨认biànrèn · to identify公认gōngrèn · generally recognised认定rèndìng · to be convinced认可rènkě · to approve

Words with 得

得de · particle linking a verb to how it is done (e.g. 跑得快觉得juéde · to feel记得jìde · remember得到dédào · to get得分défēn · to score (points)懂得dǒngde · to understand获得huòdé · to obtain得意déyì · proud of oneself值得zhíde · to be worth来得及láidejí · to have enough time

More words: Thinking & Feeling

想到xiǎngdào · to think of感到gǎndào · to feel关注guānzhù · to pay close attention to心里xīnlǐ · in one’s heart懂得dǒngde · to understand喜爱xǐ'ài · to like心xīn · heart感gǎn · (suffix) sense of …

FAQs

认得 (rènde) means “to recognise” or “to know”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it rènde: rèn with a 4th tone, then de with a neutral 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, 认得 is written 認得. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type rende with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 认得 from the suggestions. Typing rende into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
认得 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older 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 from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.