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Meaning of 想

Pinyin xiǎng

Radical

心

Strokes

Definition

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

Usage

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想 [xiǎng] (verb) 【Literal meaning】: Miss; reminisce; envy 1. 动脑筋，思索。 (To think, ponder) 例如: 感想 (feelings), 思想 (thoughts), 想法 (ideas), 想象 (the psychological process of creating new images through combination), 想入非非 (to indulge in imagination), 异想天开 (fantastical ideas), 幻想 (to fantasize). 2. 推测，认为。 (To speculate, believe) 例如: 想必 (must be), 想见 (to understand through inference), 想来 (it is only a guess), 想当然 (subjectively presumed), 不堪设想 (too horrible to imagine). 3. 希望，打算。 (To hope, intend) 例如: 休想 (don’t expect), 理想 (ideal), 希望 (hope), 妄想 (delusion). 4. 怀念，惦记。 (To miss, think of) 例如: 想念 (to remember fondly), 朝思暮想 (to think about someone day and night). 5. 像。 (To seem) 例如: 云想衣裳花容 (to seem as if clothed in clouds, resembling flowers). 【Synonyms】 1. 同本义 (think; miss) 2. 思考，思索 (think deeply; ponder) 3. 希望，想要 (hope; want) 4. 料想;猜想 (anticipate) 5. 想象 (imagine) 6. 好像，如同 (seem) 7. 怀念、回想 (miss; recall) 【Examples】 - 想似 (to miss deeply), 想思 (to miss) - 凭主观推测，认为事情应该是这样的。 - 想见 (to think of someone) - 想来的念头 (thoughts upon reflection) - 想早励良规 (to imagine early admonitions). - 云想衣裳花容 (to seem adorned like flowers in the clouds). - 想当年 (to recall those years). - 以慰长想 (to comfort longings).

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

暗想 àn xiǎng

think to oneself

朝思暮想 zhāo sī mù xiǎng

to yearn for sth day and night (idiom)

构想 gòu xiǎng

to conceive / concept

想像 xiǎng xiàng

to imagine / to conceive of / to visualize / imagination

休想 xiū xiǎng

don't think (that) / don't imagine (that)

猜想 cāi xiǎng

to guess / to conjecture / to suppose / to suspect

畅想 chàng xiǎng

to think freely / unfettered imagination

痴想 chī xiǎng

to daydream / wishful thinking / pipe dream

癞蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉 lài há ma xiǎng chī tiān é ròu

lit. the toad wants to eat swan meat (idiom) / fig. to try to punch above one's weight

想想也是 xiǎng xiǎng yě shì

Think about it too

胡思乱想 hú sī luàn xiǎng

to indulge in flights of fancy (idiom) / to let one's imagination run wild

浮想联翩 fú xiǎng lián piān

to let one's imagination roam

可想而知 kě xiǎng ér zhī

it is obvious that... / as one can well imagine...

臆想 yì xiǎng

subjective idea

想象力 xiǎng xiàng lì

imagination

遐想 xiá xiǎng

reverie / daydream / to be lost in wild and fanciful thoughts

遥想 yáo xiǎng

recollect / recall

默想 mò xiǎng

silent contemplation / to meditate / to think in silence