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思

思

See also: 恖 and 想

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

思 (radical 61 心+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 田心 (WP), four-corner 60330, composition ⿱田心)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 381, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10462
  • Dae Jaweon: page 709, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2280, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+601D

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 思
alt. forms 恖
𢙦

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 思
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (囟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
崽 *ʔslɯːʔ, *srɯː, *srɯː
偲 *sn̥ʰɯː, *snɯ
腮 *snɯː
鰓 *snɯː
揌 *snɯː
顋 *snɯː
愢 *snɯː
毢 *snɯː
諰 *srɯː, *snɯʔ
細 *snɯːls
思 *snɯ, *snɯs
緦 *snɯ
罳 *snɯ
禗 *snɯ
楒 *snɯ
葸 *snɯʔ
恖 *snɯ
颸 *sʰrɯ
囟 *snɯns
顖 *sniŋs
毸 *snɯː

Original form was 恖 (OC *snɯ): Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *snɯ, *snɯs) : semantic 心 ‎(“heart”) + phonetic 囟 ‎(OC *snɯns).

Top component unrelated to 田.

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 思 思
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 心 (16) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 之 (19) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 息兹切 相吏切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /sɨ/ /sɨH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /sɨ/ /sɨH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sie/ /sieH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /sɨ/ /sɨH/
Li
Rong		 /siə/ /siəH/
Wang
Li		 /sĭə/ /sĭəH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /si/ /siH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 sī sì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 思
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 sī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ si ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s]ə/
English think

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 思 思
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 13835 13843
Phonetic
component		 囟 囟
Rime
group		 之 之
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 思 笥
Old
Chinese		 /*snɯ/ /*snɯs/

Definitions

思

  1. to think; to cogitate
  2. thought; thinking; idea
  3. to miss; to yearn for
  4. to hope; to wish
  5. † to lament; to grieve for
  6. feeling; mood
  7. †meaningless sentence-initial particle
  8. †meaningless sentence-medial particle
  9. †sentence-final interjectional particle
  10. A surname​.

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

思

  1. †Alternative form of 䰄 (“heavily bearded”).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

思

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. think

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

思 • ‎(sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa, Yale sa)

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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

思 (tư, tơ, tứ)

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