想見

Chinese

		to think; to believe; to suppose to think; to believe; to suppose; to wish; to want; to miss	to see; to meet; to appear to see; to meet; to appear; to interview
trad. (想見)		想	見
simp. (想见)		想	见

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiǎngjiàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄤˇ ㄐㄧㄢˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎngjiàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄤˇ ㄐㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siǎngjiàn
    • Wade–Giles: hsiang³-chien⁴
    • Yale: syǎng-jyàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheangjiann
    • Palladius: сянцзянь (sjanczjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: sjangX kenH

Rime
Character	想	見
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	IV
Fanqie	息兩切	古電切
Baxter	sjangX	kenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sɨɐŋX/	/kenH/
Pan Wuyun	/siɐŋX/	/kenH/
Shao Rongfen	/siɑŋX/	/kɛnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɨaŋX/	/kɛnH/
Li Rong	/siaŋX/	/kenH/
Wang Li	/sĭaŋX/	/kienH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si̯aŋX/	/kienH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiǎng	jiàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	soeng2	gin3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]aŋʔ  [k]ˤen-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*slaŋʔ  keːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	想	見
Reading #	1/1	1/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiǎng	jiàn
Middle Chinese	‹ sjangX ›	‹ kenH ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]aŋʔ/	/*[k]ˁen-s/
English	think	see (v.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	想	見
Reading #	1/1	1/2
No.	13585	6192
Phonetic component	相	見
Rime group	陽	元
Rime subdivision	0	2
Corresponding MC rime	想	見
Old Chinese	/*slaŋʔ/	/*keːns/

Verb

想見

1. to see in one's imagination; to imagine; to envision

   • 余讀孔氏書，想見其為人。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     余读孔氏书，想见其为人。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Yú dú Kǒngshì shū, xiǎngjiàn qí wéirén. [Pinyin]

     When I was reading the works of Confucius, I can feel his character.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 想 (xiǎng),‎ 見／见.
   1. to want to meet; to seek audience