想

xiǎng

to think (about)

to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that); to desire; to want (to); to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)

sound (相) + heart (心) = to think, desire, or miss

心 anchors the meaning: thinking and longing both live in the heart-mind. 相 mainly lends the sound xiǎng and does not carry a separate semantic story here.

相+心→想
心HeartSemantic
相MutualPhonetic

我想吃一碗热汤面。

wǒ xiǎng chī yī wǎn rè tāng miàn。

I want to eat a bowl of hot noodle soup.

离开家乡这么久,我很想我的父母。

lí kāi jiā xiāng zhème jiǔ,wǒ hěn xiǎng wǒ de fù mǔ。

Having been away from my hometown for so long, I really miss my parents.

Words with 想

畅想

chàng xiǎng

to think imaginatively; to envision freely

想不通

xiǎng bu tōng

unable to understand

猜想

cāi xiǎng

to guess; to conjecture; to suppose

想必

xiǎng bì

presumably

联想起

lián xiǎng qǐ

to associate

想通

xiǎng tōng

to figure out

臆想

yì xiǎng

subjective idea

遐想

xiá xiǎng

reverie

着想

zhuó xiǎng

to give thought (to others)

哥德巴赫猜想

gē dé bā hè cāi xiǎng

the Goldbach conjecture in number theory

想睡

xiǎng shuì

drowsy

遥想

yáo xiǎng

to think about (the distant past or future)

More characters with 相

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