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Information of 想

Pinyin xiǎng

Radical

心

Strokes

13 strokes

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Definition

to think / to believe / to suppose / to wish / to want / to miss

想 [xiǎng] （动）【本义】: 想念; 怀念; 羡慕 (Original meaning: miss; recall; envy) 1. 动脑筋，思索。 (Think hard, ponder.) 如: 感想 (feelings), 思想 (thoughts), 想法 (ideas), 想象 (psychological process of creating new images), 想入非非 (lost in thought), 异想天开 (fantastic ideas), 幻想 (fantasize). 2. 推测，认为。 (Speculate, believe.) 如: 想必 (must be), 想见 (know by inference), 想来 (only according to speculation, cannot be completely sure), 想当然 (believing things should be this way based on subjective inference), 不堪设想 (unimaginable). 3. 希望，打算。 (Hope, plan.) 如: 休想 (don't even think about), 理想 (ideal), 希望 (hope), 妄想 (delusory thoughts). 4. 怀念，惦记。 (Miss, think of.) 如: 想念 (miss), 朝思暮想 (think of day and night). 5. 像。 (Seem.) 如: 云想衣裳，花想容 (clouds represent garments, flowers represent beauty). 【引】 1. 《说文》：想，冀思也。 (From "Shuowen": 'Xiǎng means to contemplate.') 2. 杜甫《客居》：览物想故国。 (Du Fu, "Guest Residence": gaze upon things and think of the homeland.) 3. 苏轼《念奴娇》：遥想公瑾当年，小乔初嫁了，雄姿英发。 (Su Shi, "Nian Nu Jiao": I think back to the days when Gong Jin, Xiao Qiao had just married, and his heroic demeanor.) 【例】又如: 想似 (deep resemblance), 想思 (missing). 6. 思考，思索。 (Think deeply, ponder.) 如: 冥思苦想 (tormenting thoughts), 想来想去 (thinking repeatedly), 想度 (consider, weigh). 7. 希望，想要。 (Hope, want.) 如: 《儿女英雄传》：那时他老人家正在用功，想中那名进士。 (In "The Heroes of Our Children": At that time, he was working hard, hoping to be a scholar.) 8. 料想; 猜想。 (Anticipate, conjecture.) 如: 想见 (to anticipate seeing), 想料 (to conjecture). 9. 想象。 (Imagine.) 如: 《与陈伯之书》：想早励良规。 (From "Letter to Chen Bozhi": Thinking of early promoting good practices.) 10. 好像，如同。 (Seem, as if.) 如: 李白《清平调词三首》：云想衣裳，花容，春风指槛露华浓。 (Li Bai, "Three Poems of Qingping Diao": Clouds seem to be clothes, flowers are beauty.) 11. 怀念、回想。 (Miss, recall.) 如: 宋·辛弃疾《永遇乐·京口北固亭怀古》：想当年。 (Song dynasty - Xin Qiji, "Eternal Joy": Remembering those years.) 12. 明·宗臣《报刘一丈书》：以慰长想。 (Ming dynasty - Zong Chen, "Reply to Liu Yizhang": To comfort long thoughts.)

不堪设想 bù kān shè xiǎng

too horrible to contemplate / unthinkable / inconceivable

妄想 wàng xiǎng

to attempt vainly / a vain attempt / delusion

痴心妄想 chī xīn wàng xiǎng

to be carried away by one's wishful thinking (idiom) / to labor under a delusion / wishful thinking

幻想 huàn xiǎng

delusion / fantasy

思想 sī xiǎng

thought / thinking / idea / ideology / CL:個|个[ge4]

幻想曲 huàn xiǎng qǔ

fantasia / fantasy

想到 xiǎng dào

to think of / to call to mind / to anticipate

没想到 méi xiǎng dào

didn't expect

心想 xīn xiǎng

to think to oneself / to think / to assume

想必 xiǎng bì

presumably / probably / in all likelihood / surely

想念 xiǎng niàn

to miss / to remember with longing / to long to see again

思想家 sī xiǎng jiā

thinker

解放思想 jiě fàng sī xiǎng

free our mind / emancipate one's mind

想起 xiǎng qǐ

to recall / to think of / to call to mind

理想 lǐ xiǎng

an ideal / a dream / ideal / perfect

不想 bù xiǎng

unexpectedly

想法 xiǎng fǎ

way of thinking / opinion / notion / to think of a way (to do sth) / CL:個|个[ge4]

想着 xiǎng zhe

keep in mind / not forget

想要 xiǎng yào

to want to / to feel like / to fancy / to care for sb / desirous of

想象 xiǎng xiàng

to imagine / to fancy / CL:個|个[ge4]

想想 xiǎng xiǎng

think

设想 shè xiǎng

to imagine / to assume / to envisage / tentative plan / to have consideration for

梦想 mèng xiǎng

(fig.) to dream of / dream

联想 lián xiǎng

to associate (cognitively) / to make an associative connection / mental association / word prediction and auto-complete functions of input method editing programs

料想 liào xiǎng

to expect / to presume / to think (sth is likely)

想不到 xiǎng bu dào

unexpected / hard to imagine / it had not occurred to me / who could have thought that

想来 xiǎng lái

it may be assumed that

苦思冥想 kǔ sī míng xiǎng

to consider from all angles (idiom); to think hard / to rack one's brains

冥思苦想 míng sī kǔ xiǎng

to consider from all angles (idiom); to think hard / to rack one's brains

冥想 míng xiǎng

to meditate / meditation