Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation 
Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
意
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Warring States script 戰國.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
识
These are the forms of 識, the traditional character: 识 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
到
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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如果你不明白一件事，那是因为你没有意识到它的背景。
If you don't understand something, it's because you aren't aware of its context.
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直到我游览了澳大利亚之后，我才意识到日本是多么小。
It wasn't until after visiting Australia that I realized Japan was so small.
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直到那时，他才意识到他已经上当受骗。
Only then did he realize he had been deceived.
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那个时候我才意识到我把钱包忘在家里了。
Only then did I realize that I had left my wallet at home.