Meaning & readings
think
On’yomi シ
Kun’yomi おも.う、おもえら.く、おぼ.す
Origin
This character shows a person's heart or mind (心) inside a field or bounded space (田). The ancient idea was that thinking happens within the mind, so combining the symbol for the heart—which Japanese associated with emotions and consciousness—with an enclosing frame suggested the act of internal reflection. Over time, this image of the mind working within itself came to mean "to think" or "to ponder."
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 9
- Kangxi radical
- 61
- Grade
- Grade 2 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #132 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 3
- Unicode
- U+0601D