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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

心想

xīnxiǎng

to think to oneself; to think

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to think to oneself; to think

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 心想 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 心想 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

他就像七月四日的烟火一样耀眼!我心想:「哇!」tā jiù xiàng qī yuè sì rì de yān huǒ yī yàng yào yǎn! wǒ xīn xiǎng:「wa!」

He was bright like the 4th of July! "Wow!", I thought!

「唉,算了吧,」狄马心想:「这实在不是挑三挑四的时候。」「āi, suàn le ba,」 dí mǎ xīn xiǎng:「zhè shí zài bú shì tiāo sān tiāo sì de shí hòu。」

"Oh, well..." thought Dima. "I suppose that I can't be picky at a time like this."

当我在我母亲的子宫里, 我从我母亲的肚脐看到我将要出生的房子, 我心想: 我不要到那里。"dāng wǒ zài wǒ mǔ qīn de zi gōng lǐ, wǒ cóng wǒ mǔ qīn de dù qí kàn dào wǒ jiāng yào chū shēng de fáng zi, wǒ xīn xiǎng: wǒ bú yào dào nà lǐ。"

When I was inside my mother's womb, I looked through my mother's navel at the house where I would be born and I thought: "No way I'm going there".

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 心想.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 心想.

Directly before

  • 我心想2
  • 人内心想2
  • 狄马心想1
  • 她心想1

Directly after

  • 心想好意1
  • 心想飞1
  • 心想持续1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 心想

What does 心想 mean in Chinese?

心想 (xīnxiǎng) means to think to oneself; to think.

How do you pronounce 心想?

心想 is pronounced xīnxiǎng.

Is 心想 an HSK word?

心想 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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