思 - Dong Chinese dictionary

sī

think

Thought is associated with the head (囟) and heart (心). 囟 is also a phonetic component.

Components

xìn

fontanel

Depicts the top of the head. The modern form of the this component looks like 田 (field), but is unrelated.

思 and 囟 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.思 /*[s]ə/
囟 /*[s]ə[r]-s/

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 囟 than it was in ancient scripts.

心 Meaning component

xīn

heart

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

思

sī

think, consider, ponder; final particle; to think; to consider

Most common words with 思

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	意思	idea
	思想	thought
	不好意思	to feel embarrassed
	有意思	interesting
	思考	to reflect on

Component uses

Meaning component in 3 characters (1 verified)

慮惫勰

Sound component in 6 characters (0 verified)

腮鰓鳃锶缌葸

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[s]ə	si	sī	think

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 95.1466% of movies

234th most common character in movies

298th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	9
Unicode	U+601D
Shuowen	“思，容也。从心，囟聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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