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  *门* | 门* | *门
gate / door / CL: / gateway / doorway / CL: 個|个 / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)
HSK 1
central point / in one's thoughts / in one's heart
HSK 2
spirit / mind / consciousness / thought / mental / psychological / essence / gist / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
thought / thinking / idea / ideology / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
notion / thought / concept / sense / views / ideology / general impressions
HSK 3
to display / to exhibit / to bring out implicit or innate qualities / to express (a thought or moral) / to develop (an idea) / to elaborate (on a theme)
HSK 4
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  *晒* | 晒* | *晒
(of the sun) to shine on / to bask in (the sunshine) / to dry (clothes, grain etc) in the sun / (fig.) to expose and share (one's experiences and thoughts) on the Web (loanword from "share") / (coll.) to give the cold shoulder to
HSK 4
(line of) thought / thinking
HSK 5
to advocate / to initiate / to propose / to be a proponent of (an idea or school of thought)
HSK 5
impressions / reflections / thoughts / CL: , 個|个
HSK 5
bright / smart / quick-witted / heart / thoughts / spirit
HSK 6
unexpected / hard to imagine / it had not occurred to me / who could have thought that
HSK 6
to be pregnant / to produce offspring / to nurture (a development, school of thought, artwork etc) / fig. replete with (culture etc)
HSK 7-9
line of thought; way of thinking
HSK 7-9
to explain oneself / to express / to reveal one's thoughts or feelings / declaration / confession
HSK 7-9
(of a thought or image) to come to mind / (of a smile etc) to appear (on sb's face) / (of a problem etc) to emerge
HSK 7-9
mind / thoughts / inclination / mood
HSK 7-9
to give thought (to others) / to consider (other people's needs) / also pr. [zhao2 xiang3]
HSK 7-9
thought; idea; intention
HSK 7-9
one's thoughts and feelings / emotional stirring / moved / touched
HSK 7-9
to proceed in parallel / side by side (of two processes, developments, thoughts etc)
HSK 7-9
one's thoughts / mind / intention / willingness to accept new ideas / baseless suspicions
HSK 7-9
concentrating one's thoughts and efforts / single-minded / bent on / intently
HSK 7-9
who would have thought that ...?
HSK 7-9
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  *OS* | OS* | *OS
(in a soap opera or movie) voice-over that makes a character's unspoken thoughts audible to the audience
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  *意* | 意* | *意
idea / meaning / thought / to think / wish / desire / intention / to expect / to anticipate
School of Agriculture, school of thought of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
school of thought
suddenly have a thought (idiom) / suddenly be inspired to do something
to harbor (thoughts) / to cherish / to entertain (illusions)
to remain puzzled after pondering over sth a hundred times (idiom) / to remain perplexed despite much thought
to dash on bravely with no thought of personal safety (idiom); undaunted by dangers / regardless of perils
the earliest ancestor / originator (of a tradition, school of thought etc)
train of thought / emotional state / mood / feeling
random thoughts / (in book titles etc) impressions / jottings
tributary (stream) / (fig.) school (of thought) / genre / style
the outside and the inside / one's outward show and inner thoughts / exterior and interior
many schools of thought / many people or households
random thoughts / impressions
who would have thought that / who would have expected that
who would have thought / unexpectedly
meaningful / thought-provoking / significant
reverie / daydream / to be lost in wild and fanciful thoughts
the Hundred Schools of Thought, the various schools of thought and their exponents during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC)
a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC, but adopted for Mao's campaign of 1956
slow in one's reactions / sluggish (in movement or thought)
(idiom) thought-provoking; to provide food for thought
lit. heart distracted, thoughts in turmoil (idiom); distraught with anxiety
scheme / artifice / tolerance / intention / motive / train of thought / brains / wit / ideas
to stare blankly / to be stunned / to be lost in thought
distracting thoughts
to provide food for thought (idiom) / thought-provoking
to collect one's thoughts (after being surprised or shocked) / to snap out of it (after being lost in thought)
absent-minded / preoccupied / inattentive / with one's thoughts wandering
a cicada in cold weather (used as a metaphor for sb who keeps their thoughts to themself) / Meimuna opalifera, a kind of cicada found in East Asia
(idiom) to have a well-thought-out plan in mind
foolish / stupid / lost in thought / in a daze
wicked idea / evil thought / evil desire
George Boole (1815-1864), English mathematician, philosopher and logician, author of The Laws of Thought and inventor of Boolean algebra
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  *慝* | 慝* | *慝
evil thought
various sages / refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism represented by Confucius 孔子 and Mencius 孟子, Daoism by Laozi 老子 and Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子, Mohism by Mozi 墨子, Legalism by Sunzi 孫子|孙子 and Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子, and numerous others
the rules and discipline that apply within a family / stick used for punishing children or servants / traditions of an artistic or academic school of thought, passed on from master to pupil
to swagger off / to walk off (or drive off etc) without a second thought for those left behind
spellbound / entranced / lost in thought
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  *悱* | 悱* | *悱
to want to articulate one's thoughts but be unable to
a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC
pit of the stomach / solar plexus / words and thoughts
wild fantasy / unwarranted thought
external appearance and inner thoughts coincide (idiom); to say what one means / to think and act as one
to ponder earnestly / to give a lot of thought to sth
one's thoughts in a whirl (idiom); confused / disconcerted / upset
unable to keep one's thoughts to oneself / blabbermouth / CL: 張|张
beginning of spring / thoughts of love
to constrict / to draw tight / to gather (one's thoughts) / to bring to a close / to pack (for a journey)
to fancy from afar / reverie / wild and fanciful thoughts
to exhaust one's thoughts and ingenuity (idiom); to think sth through thoroughly / to rack one's brains / to leave no stone unturned
lit. deep plans and distant thoughts / to plan far ahead (idiom)
(idiom) thought-provoking / to give one food for thought
to think hard / bitter thoughts / to pour out one's sufferings
to give no thought to / to have no regard for / to disregard
random thoughts (a literary genre)
famous school / noted school of thought
passing thought / an idea that comes into one's head / recollection
to divert oneself from (loneliness, grief etc) / to dispel (negative thoughts etc)
to have second thoughts about sth / to think better of
to glance back / (fig.) to regret; to have second thoughts about sth
careful thought
xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害 / the designation for a punishment
(of gloomy thoughts etc) to smolder; to accumulate in one's mind / accumulated anxiety
benevolent heart and skillful execution (idiom, from Mencius); charitable in thought and deed
to dig for thoughts (idiom); to search everything for an answer / to rack one's brains
sudden idea / flash of thought
lit. to turn pale at the mention of a tiger (idiom) / fig. to be terrified at the thought (of it)
keep your thoughts to yourself
thoughts / what one has in one's heart
think three times then go (idiom); don't act before you've thought it through carefully
bravery with no thought of personal safety (idiom); risking life and limb / undaunted by perils
to banish from one's thoughts / to ignore / to take no notice
a well-thought out long-term strategy
thoughts surging in one's mind (idiom) / different thoughts coming to mind

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