諗

諗 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜口人戈心 (YROIP), four-corner 0863₂, composition ⿰訁念)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1169, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35660
• Dae Jaweon: page 1634, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3989, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8AD7

Historical forms of the character 諗
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Probably a Kra-Dai substrate word. Compare Zhuang naemj (“to think”). This root occurs in several Zhuang dialects and Mien, and in Liuzhou Mandarin nɐn⁵⁴.

Bai (1980) associates this word with 恁 (“to think”).

Bauer (1996) argues the direction of borrowing of this word is not certain, and it is just as likely that Zhuang and/or Mien borrowed it from Cantonese as the other way round. This root does not seem to occur in the Tibeto-Burman languages.

諗

1. (Cantonese) to think; to ponder

   • 欸！喺度諗緊咩呀？ [Cantonese, trad.]
     欸！喺度谂紧咩呀？ [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 陳慧嫻, 紅茶館

     e¹! hai² dou⁶ nam² gan² me¹ aa³?

     Hey, so what are you thinking about?

2. (Cantonese) to think; to guess; to reckon

   我諗你哋都唔記得㗎喇。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   我谂你哋都唔记得㗎喇。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   ngo⁵ nam² nei⁵ dei⁶ dou¹ m⁴ gei³ dak¹ gaa³ laa³.

   I think you don't remember.

• (to guess; to reckon): 猜 (cāi), (Cantonese) 估 (gu2)

諗

1. to exhort; to reprimand
2. to long for
3. to know; to understand thoroughly
4. to inform

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), b04682

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• On (unclassified): しん (shin)、じょう (jō)、にょう (nyō)
• Kun: いさめる (isameru)

諗 (eum 심 (sim))

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諗: Hán Nôm readings: thẩm

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