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想念

xiǎng niànㄒㄧㄤˇ ㄋㄧㄢˋ

Sino-Vietnamese: TƯỞNG NIỆM

Traditional: 想念

HSK 5HSK 3.0 · 5TOCFL 4

Meaning(verb)

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

Examples

  • 我很想念家乡的饭菜。

    wǒ hěn xiǎng niàn jiā xiāng de fàn cài.

    I really miss the food from home.

  • 出国以后,她常常想念父母。

    chū guó yǐ hòu, tā cháng cháng xiǎng niàn fù mǔ.

    After going abroad, she often misses her parents.

  • 大家都很想念你。

    dà jiā dōu hěn xiǎng niàn nǐ.

    Everyone misses you a lot.

Easily confused

  • 纪念 — Its reading 'tưởng niệm' suggests 'commemorate', but 想念 means to miss; to commemorate is 纪念 or 悼念.

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Stroke order

TƯỞNG · 13 strokes

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)

NIỆM · 8 strokes

variant of 念, to read aloud