思 sī
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 心 — heart
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
思绪
sīxù
thoughts; train of thought
Characters in this word
绪 xù
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 纟 — silk
- Made of
- 纟 silk 者 that which
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 病房外的警报声打断了她原本清晰的思绪。 Bìngfáng wài de jǐngbàoshēng dǎduàn le tā yuánběn qīngxī de sīxù. The alarm outside the ward interrupted her originally clear train of thought.
- 夜深了，她的思绪还是无法平静下来。 Yè shēn le, tā de sīxù háishì wúfǎ píngjìng xiàlái. It was late at night, yet she still could not calm her racing thoughts.
- 翻开旧日记，我的思绪一下子回到从前。 Fānkāi jiù rìjì, wǒ de sīxù yīxiàzi huídào cóngqián. Opening my old diary, my thoughts at once traveled back to the past.
Related words
- 不好意思 bùhǎoyìsi sorry; embarrassed
- 意思 yìsi meaning
- 有意思 yǒuyìsi interesting
- 思想 sīxiǎng thought; way of thinking
- 思考 sīkǎo to think deeply
- 思维 sīwéi thinking
- 反思 fǎnsī to reflect, to think back
- 思路 sīlù train of thought
- 思念 sīniàn to miss, to long for
- 不假思索 bùjiǎsīsuǒ without thinking; without hesitation
- 不可思议 bùkěsīyì unbelievable; inconceivable
- 沉思 chénsī to ponder; to meditate