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想 — stroke order
Watch how to write 想 (xiǎng) stroke by stroke. 想 has 13 strokes and means “to believe”. It appears in common words such as 想要 (to want to) and 想到 (to think of). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 想
The most common words that use 想 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
想要xiǎngyàoto want to想到xiǎngdàoto think of夢想mèngxiǎngto dream of想起xiǎngqǐto recall想想xiǎngxiangto have a think about it心想xīnxiǎngto think to oneself
How 想 is written
- Radical
- 心
- Components
- 相 ＋ 心
- Formation
- Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 心 and a phonetic component 相 (mind).