認
rèn HSK5

recognize

认 認 rèn
to admit verb
to admit; to own up to; to accept as true or valid; to acknowledge

逃跑就像认了罪似的。

táo​pǎo jiù xiàng rèn le zuì shì​de.

Running away is like admitting guilt.

to recognize verb
to recognize; to identify; to distinguish; to know

看看你认出谁了。

kàn​kan nǐ rèn chū shéi le.

See who you recognize.

他们从未认出我来。

tā​men cóng​wèi rèn chū wǒ lái.

They never recognized me.

to mistake for verb
to regard or mistake as; to take something for

我被误认为是推销员。

wǒ bèi wù rèn wéi shì tuī​xiāo​yuán.

I was mistaken for a salesman.

to enter into a relationship
to enter into or establish a formal relationship with someone who was previously not related, such as a dry-relative or mentor
to accept
to accept an unpleasant or unavoidable situation; to resign oneself to fate
to value
to value or accept based on certain criteria; to care about something specific to the exclusion of others

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Frequency
Character
Written text
213th most common 991.5 per million
Movie subtitles
156th most common 1159.7 per million appears in 97% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
36.0 per million appears in 15% of films
Written text
26.3 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Simplified
认
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+8A8D

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)