悉

Verbal: To know, comprehend, or be apprised of. The sense emphasizes exhaustiveness—grasping full details or receiving a complete report. It often suggests the acquisition of specific information (learning about) rather than general knowledge.

Adverbial: Totality and exhaustiveness; indicates that an action is performed entirely, by everyone, or without exception.

As an adverb, it typically appears before another verb to modify the scope of the action. As a predicate, it functions as a verb of cognition.

Compared to 知 (zhī), 悉 emphasizes the comprehensive nature of the knowledge. In its adverbial capacity, it functions similarly to 皆 (jiē) or 全 (quán).

Semantic variant: U+6038.

Be alert for syntactic ambiguity in constructions such as 悉知. The translator must determine if the glyph is acting as an adverb of totality ("all know," typically with a plural subject) or as a modifier of degree ("know completely," typically with a singular subject or complex object).