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thought / thinking / idea / ideology / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to think of / to call to mind / to anticipate
HSK 2
to imagine; to envision / imagination
HSK 4
an ideal / a dream / ideal / perfect
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *想* | 想* | *想
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)
HSK 1
way of thinking; opinion; notion / to think of a way (to do sth)
HSK 2
didn't expect
HSK 4
to recall / to think of / to call to mind
HSK 2
to miss / to remember with longing / to long to see again
HSK 4
to imagine / to assume / to envisage / tentative plan / to have consideration for
HSK 5
to associate (cognitively) / to make an associative connection / mental association / word prediction and auto-complete functions of input method editing programs
HSK 5
to recall / to recollect / to think back
HSK 7-9
unexpected / previously unimagined
HSK 6
to indulge in flights of fancy (idiom) / to let one's imagination run wild
HSK 7-9
(fig.) to dream of / dream
HSK 4
unexpectedly; to one's surprise
unexpected / hard to imagine / it had not occurred to me / who could have thought that
HSK 6
don't think (that) / don't imagine (that)
HSK 7-9
impressions / reflections / thoughts / CL: , 個|个
HSK 5
(idiom) to have one's wishes come true; wish you the best!
HSK 7-9
to fantasize; to imagine / an illusion; a fantasy
HSK 6
to attempt vainly / a vain attempt / delusion
HSK 7-9
daydream / fantasy / to fantasize
HSK 7-9
the Goldbach conjecture in number theory
(idiom) (it) goes without saying; can well be imagined
HSK 7-9
to give thought (to others) / to consider (other people's needs) / also pr. [zhao2 xiang3]
HSK 7-9
to consider past cause and future effect (idiom); to think over the past and future / to ponder over reasons and connection
HSK 7-9
presumably / probably / in all likelihood / surely
to think up every possible method (idiom); to devise ways and means / to try this, that and the other
HSK 7-9
feudal way of thinking
to let one's imagination roam
to remember / to recall
to imagine; to envision / imagination
conception / imagination
(music) capriccio
to figure out / to work out (a solution etc) / to think up / to come up with (an idea etc)
(Tw) to dream of having (sth one cannot possibly have); to covet (sth beyond one's grasp) (from Taiwanese 數想, Tai-lo pr. [siàu-siūnn])
to think about it
to guess; to conjecture; to suppose / (math.) hypothesis
HSK 7-9
to expect / to presume / to think (sth is likely)
system of thought / ideology
imagination
too horrible to contemplate / unthinkable / inconceivable
rhapsody (music)
(idiom) to imagine the wildest thing; to indulge in fantasy
HSK 7-9
to want to / to feel like / to fancy / to care for sb / desirous of
to take sth as given / to assume / as one would expect / naturally
to figure out / to realize / to become convinced / to come round (to an idea) / to get over it
to meditate / meditation
to think to oneself; to think
new ideas
Mao Zedong Thought
Lenovo
imaginary / virtual / to imagine / hypothesis
to desire / to wish / (literary) to admire
(psychology) contrastive association
intellectual history
Final Fantasy (video game)
tentative idea
sexual fantasy / to fantasize sexually about (sb)
fantasies / imaginings
silent contemplation / to meditate / to think in silence
think tank
idealism
with the same idea in mind / with a common purpose
Juche Idea (North Korean ideology of political, economic and military independence)
conceivable
One world - one dream, motto of 2008 Beijing Olympic games
thinker
to yearn for sth day and night (idiom)
paranoia / megalomaniac
sth weighing on one's mind
to get over (a shock, bereavement etc) / to avoid dwelling on unpleasant things / to accept the situation and move on
(coll.) idea / hope
to be carried away by one's wishful thinking (idiom) / to labor under a delusion / wishful thinking
an unconventional but wonderful idea
exchange of ideas
science fiction
suddenly have a thought (idiom) / suddenly be inspired to do something
to consider from all angles (idiom); to think hard / to rack one's brains
it may be assumed that
to conceive / concept
HSK 7-9
consciousness
to indulge in fantasy (idiom); to let one's imagination run wild
political thought / ideology
dreamer / visionary
unable to understand / unable to get over
mythomania
to recall
subjective idea
passing thought / an idea that comes into one's head / recollection
to consider (a cogent point) (usu. used as an imperative – "Think about it: ...")
to expect anxiously
delusional disorder / (fig.) paranoia
(coll.) keepsake; memento / (coll.) impression (of sb or sth in one's mind)
to idealize
Lenovo Group (PRC computer firm)
to think about (the distant past or future)
random thoughts / (in book titles etc) impressions / jottings
blunt thinking / apathy

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