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Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*slaŋ, *slaŋs
*slaŋ
*slaŋ
*slaŋ
*slaŋ
*slaŋ
*slaŋʔ
*sraŋ
*sraŋ
*sraŋ
*sraŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *slaŋʔ) : phonetic  (OC *slaŋ, *slaŋs) + semantic  (heart, mind) – to think, to consider.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (105)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
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
Baxter-Sagart 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

  1. to think (to conceive of something or someone)
    • 衰老   xiǎng tā shì shuāilǎo le.   I think she's going senile.
  2. to think about; to plan; to be considering
    • 暑假打工   xiǎng zài shǔjiǎ dǎgōng.   I'm planning to get a job for the summer.
  3. to think; to suppose; to guess; to reckon
  4. to want; to wish for; to desire
  5. to miss (to feel the absence of someone or something)

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. thought, idea, concept

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(sang) (hangeul , revised sang, McCune-Reischauer sang, Yale sang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tưởng)

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