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想

xiǎng

to think, want

Part of speech · verb / modal

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Examples

我想去中国。
I want to go to China.
我想想。
Let me think.

Collocations

很想想想想念

Mnemonic

想 xiǎng — (1) verb "think", (2) modal "want to". Softer desire than 要: 我想去 "I\'d like to go" vs 我要去 "I\'m going / want to go (firmly)". Reduplicated 想想 = "think it over briefly".

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