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念

niàn

think of, ready

Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 今 represents the sound.

Components
心 meaning component

心  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

今 sound component

今  Sound component

jīn

  

now

Evolution

念 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
念 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
念 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
念 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
念 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

念  

niàn

think of, recall, study; to read; to study (a subject); to attend (a school); to read aloud; to give (sb) a tongue-lashing (CL:頓|顿[dùn]); to miss (sb); idea; remembrance; twenty (banker's anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿[niàn])

念 (唸) 

niàn

variant of 念[niàn], to read aloud

Most common words with 念
Freq.
Word
Meaning

念

to read

想念

to miss

概念

concept

纪念

to commemorate

观念

notion

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

谂

Sound component in 6 characters (1 verified)

唸 捻 鯰 鲶 稔 埝

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*nˤim-s

nemH

niàn

think of


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 54.7493% of movies

781st most common character in movies

477th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5FF5

Shuowen

“念，常思也。从心，今聲。”


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