(sī) - to think; thought (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
sīTraditional: 思
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Translation
to think; thought (bound morpheme)
Word origin
An ideograph combining 田 (here from 囟, the fontanelle or brain) over 心 (xīn, heart), brain and heart together giving thought.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- 囟 (brain, written 田) + 心 (xīn, heart)
Stroke order
思
Examples
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What does this word mean?
，。
Sorry, I'm late.
。
His idea is interesting.
陷深。
He sank into deep thought.
。
I enjoy thinking deeply about history.
思 (sī) means to think. In daily speech it almost always pairs with 意 in 意思, which covers meaning, idea, and (in 不好意思) the mild apology of feeling awkward.
Appears in 4 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 思.
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