| | gate / door / CL: 扇 / 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 |
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| | central point / in one's thoughts / in one's heart | HSK 2 |
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| | spirit / mind / consciousness / thought / mental / psychological / essence / gist / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | thought / thinking / idea / ideology / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | notion / thought / concept / sense / views / ideology / general impressions | HSK 3 |
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| | 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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| | (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 |
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| | (line of) thought / thinking | HSK 5 |
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| | to advocate / to initiate / to propose / to be a proponent of (an idea or school of thought) | HSK 5 |
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| | impressions / reflections / thoughts / CL: 通, 個|个 | HSK 5 |
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| | bright / smart / quick-witted / heart / thoughts / spirit | HSK 6 |
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| | unexpected / hard to imagine / it had not occurred to me / who could have thought that | HSK 6 |
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| | to be pregnant / to produce offspring / to nurture (a development, school of thought, artwork etc) / fig. replete with (culture etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | line of thought; way of thinking | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to explain oneself / to express / to reveal one's thoughts or feelings / declaration / confession | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (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 |
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| | mind / thoughts / inclination / mood | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to give thought (to others) / to consider (other people's needs) / also pr. [zhao2 xiang3] | HSK 7-9 |
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| | thought; idea; intention | HSK 7-9 |
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| | one's thoughts and feelings / emotional stirring / moved / touched | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to proceed in parallel / side by side (of two processes, developments, thoughts etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | one's thoughts / mind / intention / willingness to accept new ideas / baseless suspicions | HSK 7-9 |
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| | concentrating one's thoughts and efforts / single-minded / bent on / intently | HSK 7-9 |
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| | who would have thought that ...? | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (in a soap opera or movie) voice-over that makes a character's unspoken thoughts audible to the audience | |
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| | idea / meaning / thought / to think / wish / desire / intention / to expect / to anticipate | |
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| | School of Agriculture, school of thought of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) | |
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| | school of thought | |
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| | suddenly have a thought (idiom) / suddenly be inspired to do something | |
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| | to harbor (thoughts) / to cherish / to entertain (illusions) | |
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| | to remain puzzled after pondering over sth a hundred times (idiom) / to remain perplexed despite much thought | |
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| | to dash on bravely with no thought of personal safety (idiom); undaunted by dangers / regardless of perils | |
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| | the earliest ancestor / originator (of a tradition, school of thought etc) | |
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| | train of thought / emotional state / mood / feeling | |
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| | random thoughts / (in book titles etc) impressions / jottings | |
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| | tributary (stream) / (fig.) school (of thought) / genre / style | |
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| | the outside and the inside / one's outward show and inner thoughts / exterior and interior | |
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| | many schools of thought / many people or households | |
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| | random thoughts / impressions | |
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| | who would have thought that / who would have expected that | |
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| | who would have thought / unexpectedly | |
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| | meaningful / thought-provoking / significant | |
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| | reverie / daydream / to be lost in wild and fanciful thoughts | |
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| | 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) | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | slow in one's reactions / sluggish (in movement or thought) | |
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| | (idiom) thought-provoking; to provide food for thought | |
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| | lit. heart distracted, thoughts in turmoil (idiom); distraught with anxiety | |
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| | scheme / artifice / tolerance / intention / motive / train of thought / brains / wit / ideas | |
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| | to stare blankly / to be stunned / to be lost in thought | |
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| | distracting thoughts | |
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| | to provide food for thought (idiom) / thought-provoking | |
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| | to collect one's thoughts (after being surprised or shocked) / to snap out of it (after being lost in thought) | |
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| | absent-minded / preoccupied / inattentive / with one's thoughts wandering | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | (idiom) to have a well-thought-out plan in mind | |
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| | foolish / stupid / lost in thought / in a daze | |
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| | wicked idea / evil thought / evil desire | |
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| | George Boole (1815-1864), English mathematician, philosopher and logician, author of The Laws of Thought and inventor of Boolean algebra | |
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| | evil thought | |
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| | various sages / refers to the classical schools of thought, e.g. Confucianism 儒 represented by Confucius 孔子 and Mencius 孟子, Daoism 道 by Laozi 老子 and Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子, Mohism 墨 by Mozi 墨子, Legalism 法 by Sunzi 孫子|孙子 and Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子, and numerous others | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | to swagger off / to walk off (or drive off etc) without a second thought for those left behind | |
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| | spellbound / entranced / lost in thought | |
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| | to want to articulate one's thoughts but be unable to | |
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| | a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC | |
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| | pit of the stomach / solar plexus / words and thoughts | |
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| | wild fantasy / unwarranted thought | |
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| | external appearance and inner thoughts coincide (idiom); to say what one means / to think and act as one | |
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| | to ponder earnestly / to give a lot of thought to sth | |
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| | one's thoughts in a whirl (idiom); confused / disconcerted / upset | |
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| | unable to keep one's thoughts to oneself / blabbermouth / CL: 張|张 | |
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| | beginning of spring / thoughts of love | |
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| | to constrict / to draw tight / to gather (one's thoughts) / to bring to a close / to pack (for a journey) | |
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| | to fancy from afar / reverie / wild and fanciful thoughts | |
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| | to exhaust one's thoughts and ingenuity (idiom); to think sth through thoroughly / to rack one's brains / to leave no stone unturned | |
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| | lit. deep plans and distant thoughts / to plan far ahead (idiom) | |
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| | (idiom) thought-provoking / to give one food for thought | |
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| | to think hard / bitter thoughts / to pour out one's sufferings | |
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| | to give no thought to / to have no regard for / to disregard | |
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| | random thoughts (a literary genre) | |
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| | famous school / noted school of thought | |
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| | passing thought / an idea that comes into one's head / recollection | |
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| | to divert oneself from (loneliness, grief etc) / to dispel (negative thoughts etc) | |
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| | to have second thoughts about sth / to think better of | |
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| | to glance back / (fig.) to regret; to have second thoughts about sth | |
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| | careful thought | |
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| | xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害 / the designation for a punishment | |
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| | (of gloomy thoughts etc) to smolder; to accumulate in one's mind / accumulated anxiety | |
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| | benevolent heart and skillful execution (idiom, from Mencius); charitable in thought and deed | |
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| | to dig for thoughts (idiom); to search everything for an answer / to rack one's brains | |
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| | sudden idea / flash of thought | |
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| | lit. to turn pale at the mention of a tiger (idiom) / fig. to be terrified at the thought (of it) | |
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| | keep your thoughts to yourself | |
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| | thoughts / what one has in one's heart | |
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| | think three times then go (idiom); don't act before you've thought it through carefully | |
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| | bravery with no thought of personal safety (idiom); risking life and limb / undaunted by perils | |
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| | to banish from one's thoughts / to ignore / to take no notice | |
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| | a well-thought out long-term strategy | |
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| | thoughts surging in one's mind (idiom) / different thoughts coming to mind | |
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