| 知 | zhī dào le | OK! / Got it! | 
| 知 | zhī | to know / to be aware | 
| 知 | zhī dào | to know; to become aware of / also pr. [zhi1dao5] | 
| 道 | dào | road; path (CL:条,股) / (bound form) way; reason; principle / (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization / (Daoism) the Way; the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division) | 
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) / (modal particle intensifying preceding clause) | 
| 了 | liǎo | to finish / (used with 得 or 不 after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 "cannot forget") / (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 无 or 不) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least / to understand clearly (variant of 了) | 
| 了 | liǎo | (of eyes) bright / clear-sighted / to understand clearly | 
| 了 | liào | unofficial variant of 瞭 |