U+60F3, 想
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-60F3

[U+60F2]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+60F4]

Translingual

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Stroke order
 
Stroke order
 

Han character

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(Kangxi radical 61, +9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木山心 (DUP), four-corner 46330, composition )

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 392, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10858
  • Dae Jaweon: page 728, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2320, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+60F3

Chinese

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simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *slaŋʔ) : phonetic (OC *slaŋ, *slaŋs) + semantic (heart, mind) – to think, to consider. The phonetic component has a reference as well to the act of thinking, hence "visualizing" in one's own mind.

Etymology

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From (OC *slaŋ, *slaŋs, “to observe; appearance”) (“appearance > to visualise > to think”).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • siūⁿ/siǔⁿ/siōⁿ - vernacular;
  • sióng/siáng - literary.
Note:
  • siên6/sion6 - vernacular (siên6 - Chaozhou);
  • siang2 - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (105)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter sjangX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/sɨɐŋX/
Pan
Wuyun
/siɐŋX/
Shao
Rongfen
/siɑŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/sɨaŋX/
Li
Rong
/siaŋX/
Wang
Li
/sĭaŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/si̯aŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiǎng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
soeng2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xiǎng
Middle
Chinese
‹ sjangX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[s]aŋʔ/
English think

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 13585
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*slaŋʔ/

Definitions

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  1. to think (to conceive of something or someone)
      ―  xiǎng duō le ba!  ―  You've overthought this!; You've read too much into this!
    衰老 [MSC, trad. and simp.]
    xiǎng tā shì shuāilǎo le. [Pinyin]
    I think she's going senile.
  2. to think about; to plan; to be considering
    暑假打工 [MSC, trad. and simp.]
    xiǎng zài shǔjià dǎgōng. [Pinyin]
    I'm planning to get a job for the summer.
  3. to think; to suppose; to guess; to reckon
    合適尺碼 [MSC, trad.]
    合适尺码 [MSC, simp.]
    xiǎng wǒ néng gěi nǐ zhǎo dào héshì de chǐmǎ. [Pinyin]
    I think I can find the right size for you.
  4. to want; to wish for; to desire
      ―  Hái xiǎng hē yī bēi ma?  ―  Would you like another drink?
    芭蕾舞演員 [MSC, trad.]
    芭蕾舞演员 [MSC, simp.]
    xiǎng dāng bālěiwǔ yǎnyuán. [Pinyin]
    She wants to be a ballet dancer.
      ―  Wǒ hěn xiǎng shuì.  ―  I'm really sleepy (lit. I really want to sleep.)
    [Cantonese]  ―  tai2 dou3 m4 soeng2 tai2 [Jyutping]  ―  watched so much that one doesn't want to watch any more
  5. to miss (to feel the absence of someone or something)
    [MSC, trad.]
    [MSC, simp.]
    Nǐ zǒu le wǒ huì xiǎng nǐ de. [Pinyin]
    I'll miss you when you're gone.
  6. to resemble
    衣裳 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
    衣裳 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
    From: 李白《清平調》
    yún xiǎng yīshang huā xiǎng róng [Pinyin]
    Clouds look like her clothes, flowers look like her face.
  7. (Hinduism, Buddhism) sanskara

Usage notes

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  • In the sense of want or desire, (xiǎng) is also used as would like. It also appears together with (yào) as 想要 (xiǎngyào) to mean "would like".

Synonyms

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  • (to reckon):

Compounds

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic ():
  • Vietnamese: tưởng ()

Further reading

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  • Entry #9451”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.
  • 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “”, in 莆仙方言大词典 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 518.

Japanese

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Kanji

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(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. thought, idea, concept

Readings

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Korean

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Hanja

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(eumhun 생각 (saenggak sang))

  1. hanja form? of (idea, thought)

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: tưởng

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