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spirit / mind / consciousness / thought / mental / psychological / essence / gist / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
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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
thought / thinking / idea / ideology / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
central point / in one's thoughts / in one's heart
HSK 2
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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
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
to advocate / to initiate / to propose / to be a proponent of (an idea or school of thought)
HSK 5
(line of) thought / thinking
HSK 5
notion / thought / concept / sense / views / ideology / general impressions
HSK 3
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
impressions / reflections / thoughts / CL: , 個|个
HSK 5
line of thought; way of thinking
HSK 7-9
thought; idea; intention
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
concentrating one's thoughts and efforts / single-minded / bent on / intently
HSK 7-9
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  *意* | 意* | *意
idea / meaning / thought / to think / wish / desire / intention / to expect / to anticipate
random thoughts (a literary genre)
to explain oneself / to express / to reveal one's thoughts or feelings / declaration / confession
HSK 7-9
He who gives no thought to far-flung problems soon finds suffering nearby (idiom, from Analects). / Smug concentration on the here and now will lead to future sorrow.
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
(idiom) to have a well-thought-out plan in mind
HSK 7-9
Mao Zedong Thought
bravery with no thought of personal safety (idiom); risking life and limb / undaunted by perils
(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
the School of the Military, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家|诸子百家 of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
to dash on bravely with no thought of personal safety (idiom); undaunted by dangers / regardless of perils
School of Minor-talks, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家|诸子百家 during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
the nine schools of thought, philosophical schools of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC), viz Confucians 儒家, Daoists 道家, Yin and Yang 陰陽家|阴阳家, Legalists 法家, Logicians 名家, Mohists 墨家, Diplomats 縱橫家|纵横家, Miscellaneous 雜家|杂家, and Agriculturalists 農家|农家
Yu Dan (1965–), Chinese scholar and author known for popularizing Chinese classical thought
(of gloomy thoughts etc) to smolder; to accumulate in one's mind / accumulated anxiety
to give thought (to others) / to consider (other people's needs) / also pr. [zhao2 xiang3]
HSK 7-9
to harbor (thoughts) / to cherish / to entertain (illusions)
to proceed in parallel / side by side (of two processes, developments, thoughts etc)
HSK 7-9
benevolent heart and skillful execution (idiom, from Mencius); charitable in thought and deed
to stare blankly / to be stunned / to be lost in thought
seven emotional states / seven affects of traditional Chinese medical theory and therapy, namely: joy , anger , anxiety 憂|忧, thought , grief , fear , fright 驚|惊 / seven relations
scheme / artifice / tolerance / intention / motive / train of thought / brains / wit / ideas
Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory & the Three Represents (abbr. for 毛澤東思想|毛泽东思想 + 鄧小平理論|邓小平理论 + 三個代表|三个代表)
(chemistry) to settle; to precipitate / (chemistry) sediment; precipitate / (fig.) (of emotions, thoughts, experience etc) to settle and be absorbed over time; to take shape gradually (through reflection or maturation)
HSK 7-9
honor does not allow one to glance back (idiom); duty-bound not to turn back / no surrender / to pursue justice with no second thoughts
school of thought
one's thoughts and feelings / emotional stirring / moved / touched
HSK 7-9
who would have thought that ...?
HSK 7-9
to be pregnant / to produce offspring / to nurture (a development, school of thought, artwork etc) / fig. replete with (culture etc)
HSK 7-9
to think hard (idiom) / to give sth much thought
to not take to heart / to be free of worried thoughts / to adopt a lighthearted perspective / lighthearted
idea / thought
to disentangle (wiring etc) / (fig.) to clarify (one's thoughts etc)
sweetheart / one's true love / the person of one's thoughts
beginning of spring / thoughts of love
to oscillate without pause (idiom) / to fluctuate / (of thoughts) to wander / to waver
train of thought / emotional state / mood / feeling
thoughts wandering far away
to swagger off / to walk off (or drive off etc) without a second thought for those left behind
absent-minded / preoccupied / inattentive / with one's thoughts wandering
one's thoughts fly to a longed-for place or person / to long for / infatuated / fascinated
to constrict / to draw tight / to gather (one's thoughts) / to bring to a close / to pack (for a journey)
wild fantasy / unwarranted thought
representative individual (of a school of thought)
Xuexi Qiangguo, PRC app designed to teach Xi Jinping Thought, released in 2019
(idiom) thought-provoking; to provide food for thought
HSK 7-9
goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.
to divert oneself from (loneliness, grief etc) / to dispel (negative thoughts etc)
tide of thought / way of thinking characteristic of a historical period / Zeitgeist
to remain puzzled after pondering over sth a hundred times (idiom) / to remain perplexed despite much thought
goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling gift with a weighty thought behind it / also written 千里送鵝毛|千里送鹅毛
lit. to turn pale at the mention of a tiger (idiom) / fig. to be terrified at the thought (of it)
who would have thought? / who could have imagined? / unexpectedly
to collect one's thoughts (after being surprised or shocked) / to snap out of it (after being lost in thought)
inaccurate / slipshod / poorly thought-out / distant / vague / long-separated / broadly scattered
keep your thoughts to yourself
one's thoughts / mind / intention / willingness to accept new ideas / baseless suspicions
HSK 7-9
external appearance and inner thoughts coincide (idiom); to say what one means / to think and act as one
person from the same village, town or province / peasant (derog.) / (of a school of thought etc) follower
goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it
abstract thought / logical thinking
random thoughts / impressions
mind / thoughts / inclination / mood
HSK 7-9
the outside and the inside / one's outward show and inner thoughts / exterior and interior
extreme (usu. of thoughts, speech, circumstances)
goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.
to ponder earnestly / to give a lot of thought to sth
School of Agriculture, school of thought of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
foolish / stupid / lost in thought / in a daze
system of thought / ideology
thoughts / what one has in one's heart
(idiom) thought-provoking / to give one food for thought
political thought / ideology
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)
to fancy from afar / reverie / wild and fanciful thoughts
one's thoughts in a whirl (idiom); confused / disconcerted / upset
without a second thought
to be perverse and suggestive towards the opposite sex, but shrinking back when provoked to act on it / to have perverted thoughts but no guts to actually do it / to be all talk and no action
to hesitate / to have second thoughts / to be concerned / to brood (over sth) / to complain
to form one's own group or school of thought / to set up one's own business / to establish oneself
to ponder earnestly / to give a lot of thought to sth
(hon.) your distinguished thoughts / Thank you (for your esteemed contribution to our discussion).
distracting thoughts
lit. the child sells the father's farm without regret (idiom) / fig. to sell one's inheritance without a second thought for how hard one's forebears worked for it

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