想 xiǎng▶ ต้องการ

Stroke order

想 is written in 13 strokes.

• 想

Senses

1. to think (about)
2. to think of; to devise
3. to think (that); to believe (that)
4. to desire; to want (to)
5. to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)

Example sentences

• 我想吃苹果。Wǒ xiǎng chī píngguǒ.I want to eat an apple.
• 你想去哪儿？Nǐ xiǎng qù nǎr?Where do you want to go?

Related words

• 理想อุดมคติ
• 幻想จินตนาการ
• 思想ความคิด
• 想念พลาด, คิดถึง, นางสาว
• 想象จินตนาการ
• 感想รู้สึก

想 is pronounced xiǎng and means “ต้องการ”. It belongs to the HSK 1 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 想 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.