Chinese symbol for “recollection”

追思

zhuī sī

memorial; recollection (of the deceased)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for recollection is 追思 (zhuī sī), defined as: memorial; recollection (of the deceased).

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Characters and stroke order

追 zhuī

to pursue, to chase after; to expel

radical 162 ⾡ · 10 strokes

思 sī

to think, to ponder, to consider; final particle

radical 61 ⼼ · 9 strokes

Other Chinese words for “recollection”

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
浮想	fú xiǎng	passing thought; an idea that comes into one's head

Related words

Other words that share a character with 追思.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
追求	zhuī qiú	to pursue (a goal etc) stubbornly; to seek after
追踪 (追蹤)	zhuī zōng	to track; to trace; to follow up; (HK, Tw) to follow (on social media)
追究	zhuī jiū	to investigate; to look into
追加	zhuī jiā	to add something extra; an additional increment
追逐	zhuī zhú	to chase; to pursue vigorously
追溯	zhuī sù	lit. to go upstream; to trace sth back to
意思	yì si	idea; opinion
思想	sī xiǎng	thought; thinking

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.