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Mythic Mandarin

想念 (xiǎng niàn): meaning and stroke order

想念 (xiǎng niàn) means to miss, to remember with longing, to long to see again.

想念

Simplified
想念
Traditional
想念 (same form)
Pinyin
xiǎng niàn

Stroke order of 想念

想

  • xiǎng to think (about); to think of; to devise
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

念

  • niàn variant of 念[nian4], to read aloud
  • niàn to read; to study (a subject)
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 唸

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 想念

  1. xiǎng niàn
    • to miss
    • to remember with longing
    • to long to see again

Radicals of the characters

想
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 13 strokes · 相 on top, 心 below
念
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 8 strokes · 今 on top, 心 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).