The kanji 想: meaning, readings and stroke order
想
- Meaning
- think, imagine
- On reading
- ソウ sou、ソ* so
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 心 heart
- Level
- Level 3 · grade 3
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- nghĩ, tưởng tượng (tưởng)
- Japanese
- おもう。おもいうかべる。
- Korean
- 생각하다, 떠올리다 (상)
- Chinese
- 想、想象
Readings, words and example sentences
ソウ sou · on reading
感想
thoughts, what you felt
読んだ 本の 感想を 書きます。
I write what I thought about the book I read.
* marks a less common reading, usually learnt from junior high on.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.