Chinese symbol for “muse”
瞑想
míng xiǎng
to muse; to think deeply; contemplation; meditation
The closest CC-CEDICT match for muse is 瞑想 (míng xiǎng), defined as: to muse; to think deeply; contemplation; meditation.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 瞑想.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 死不瞑目 | sǐ bù míng mù | lit. not close one's eyes after dying (idiom); fig. to die with an unresolved grievance |
| 瞑目 | míng mù | to close one's eyes; (fig.) to be contented at the time of one's death (Dying without closing one's eyes would signify having unresolved gri |
| 瞑眩 | míng xuàn | dizziness, nausea etc brought on as a side effect of drug treatment (Chinese medicine) |
| 想要 | xiǎng yào | to want to; to feel like |
| 思想 | sī xiǎng | thought; thinking |
| 不想 | bù xiǎng | unexpectedly; to one's surprise |
| 想到 | xiǎng dào | to think of; to call to mind |
| 想法 | xiǎng fǎ | way of thinking; opinion; notion; to think of a way (to do sth) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “muse”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.