漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
思: think
田 and 心 carry the meaning
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
シshi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 思考するしこうするthink
- 意思いしintention
- 思想しそうthought, ideas
- 不思議なふしぎなstrange, mysterious
おもうomou · kun'yomi · on its own
- 思うおもうfeel, think
- 思い出すおもいだすrecall
- 思い出おもいでmemories
Also read おもえらく, おぼす, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)囟 (sound) + 心 heart (meaning)
Original form was 恖, considered by Shuowen to be a phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 囟 + semantic 心 (“heart”). It may also be a ideogrammic compound (會意): 囟 (“fontanel”) + 心 (“heart”).
Source: Wiktionary, 思 (rev. 92220359), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“A field/brain (田) over a heart (心) = the mind and heart working together in harmony to produce thoughts.”
Connections
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · sī
Same form: 思 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 思 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 思 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin sī most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.