想象

Character by character

• 想xiǎng13 strokesHSK 1think, speculate, plan, consider
• 象xiàng12 strokesHSK 3elephant; ivory; figure, image

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 那只是你的想象。

  Nà zhǐ shì nǐ de xiǎng xiàng

  It's just your imagination.

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• 这只是你的想象。

  Zhè zhǐ shì nǐ de xiǎng xiàng

  It's just your imagination.

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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 想象. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 想xiǎngHSK 1

  to think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that); to desire; to want (to); to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)

• 想到xiǎng dàoHSK 2

  to think of; to call to mind; to anticipate

• 想法xiǎng fǎHSK 2

  way of thinking; opinion; notion; to think of a way (to do sth)

• 梦想mèng xiǎngHSK 4

  (fig.) to dream of; dream

• 思想sī xiǎngHSK 3

  thought; thinking; idea; ideology

• 想起xiǎng qǐHSK 2

  to recall; to think of; to call to mind

• 对象duì xiàngHSK 3

  target; object; partner; boyfriend; girlfriend

• 印象yìn xiàngHSK 3

  impression (sth that stays in one's mind); a memory

• 形象xíng xiàngHSK 3

  image; form; figure; visualization; vivid

• 现象xiàn xiàngHSK 3

  phenomenon; appearance

• 理想lǐ xiǎngHSK 2

  an ideal; a dream; ideal; perfect

• 想念xiǎng niànHSK 4

  to miss; to remember with longing; to long to see again

• 幻想huàn xiǎngHSK 6

  delusion; fantasy

• 迹象jì xiàngHSK 7

  sign; indication; mark; indicator

• 象征xiàng zhēngHSK 5

  emblem; symbol; token; badge; to symbolize; to signify; to stand for

• 想不到xiǎng bu dàoHSK 6

  unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that

• 回想huí xiǎngHSK 7

  to recall; to recollect; to think back

• 联想lián xiǎngHSK 5

  to associate (cognitively); to make an associative connection; mental association; word prediction and auto-complete functions of input method editing programs

• 气象qì xiàngHSK 5

  meteorological feature; meteorology; atmosphere; ambience; scene

• 设想shè xiǎngHSK 5

  to imagine; to assume; to envisage; tentative plan; to have consideration for

• 景象jǐng xiàngHSK 5

  scene; sight (to behold)

• 着想zhuó xiǎngHSK 7

  to give thought (to others); to consider (other people's needs); also pr. [zháo xiǎng]

• 大象dà xiàngHSK 5

  elephant

• 猜想cāi xiǎngHSK 7

  to guess; to conjecture; to suppose; (math.) hypothesis