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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

想到

xiǎngdào

to think of

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to think of

02

to call to mind

03

to anticipate

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 想到 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 想到 appears in 69 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我想到了一个好主意。wǒ xiǎng dào le yí gè hǎo zhǔ yì。

I thought of a good idea.

有个问题你没有想到。yǒu gè wèn tí nǐ méi yǒu xiǎng dào。

There's a problem there that you don't see.

我刚想到了一个好主意。wǒ gāng xiǎng dào le yí gè hǎo zhǔ yì。

A good idea occurred to me just then.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 想到.

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

Directly before

  • 我想到10
  • 会想到7
  • 没有想到6
  • 突然想到4
  • 你想到3

Directly after

  • 想到了18
  • 想到这种4
  • 想到的4
  • 想到你4
  • 想到外国2
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 想到

What does 想到 mean in Chinese?

想到 (xiǎngdào) means to think of.

How do you pronounce 想到?

想到 is pronounced xiǎngdào.

Is 想到 an HSK word?

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

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