想

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

• 𫾋

• 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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *slaŋʔ) : phonetic 相 (OC *slaŋ, *slaŋs) + semantic 心 (“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.

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

想

1. to think (to conceive of something or someone)

   你想多了吧！  ―  Nǐ xiǎng duō le ba!  ―  You've overthought this!; You've read too much into this!

   我想她是衰老了。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Wǒ xiǎng tā shì shuāilǎo le.

   I think she's going senile.

2. to think about; to plan; to be considering

   我想在暑假打工。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Wǒ xiǎng zài shǔjià dǎgōng.

   I'm planning to get a job for the summer.

3. to think; to suppose; to guess; to reckon

   我想我能給你找到合適的尺碼。 [MSC, trad.]
   我想我能给你找到合适的尺码。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ xiǎng wǒ néng gěi nǐ zhǎo dào héshì de chǐmǎ.

   I think I can find the right size for you.

4. to want; to wish for; to desire

   還想喝一杯嗎？／还想喝一杯吗？  ―  Hái xiǎng hē yī bēi ma?  ―  Would you like another drink?

   她想當芭蕾舞演員。 [MSC, trad.]
   她想当芭蕾舞演员。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā xiǎng dāng bālěiwǔ yǎnyuán.

   She wants to be a ballet dancer.

   我很想睡。  ―  Wǒ hěn xiǎng shuì.  ―  I'm really sleepy (lit. I really want to sleep.)

   睇到唔想睇 [Cantonese]  ―  tai² dou³ m⁴ soeng² tai²   ―  watched so much that one doesn't want to watch any more

5. to miss (to feel the absence of someone or something)

   你走了我會想你的。 [MSC, trad.]
   你走了我会想你的。 [MSC, simp.]

   Nǐ zǒu le wǒ huì xiǎng nǐ de.

   I'll miss you when you're gone.

6. to resemble

   雲想衣裳花想容 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   云想衣裳花想容 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: 李白《清平調》

   yún xiǎng yīshang huā xiǎng róng

   Clouds look like her clothes, flowers look like her face.

7. (Hinduism, Buddhism) sanskara

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

• (to reckon):

• “Entry #9451”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (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 , editor (2021), “想”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 518.

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. thought, idea, concept

• Go-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: そ (so, Jōyō ^†)
• Kun: おもい (omoi, 想い)^{←おもひ (omofi, 想ひ, historical)}、おもう (omou, 想う)^{←おもふ (omofu, 想ふ, historical)}

想 (eumhun 생각 상 (saenggak sang))

1. hanja form^? of 상 (“idea, thought”)

想: Hán Nôm readings: tưởng

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