xiǎng
think
Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 相 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
xiǎng
think, speculate, plan, consider; to think; to believe; to suppose; to wish; to want; to miss (feel wistful about the absence of sb or sth)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[s]aŋʔ | sjangX | xiǎng | think |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 99.9680% of movies
28th most common character in movies
99th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+60F3 |
Shuowen | “想，冀思也。从心，相聲。” |
Sources
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