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Chinese symbol for “thinker”

思想家
sī xiǎng jiā
thinker

The closest CC-CEDICT match for thinker is 思想家 (sī xiǎng jiā), defined as: thinker.

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Characters and stroke order

思 sī
to think, to ponder, to consider; final particle
radical 61 ⼼ · 9 strokes
想 xiǎng
to believe, to wish for; to consider, to plan, to think
radical 61 ⼼ · 13 strokes
家 jiā
house, home, residence; family
radical 40 ⼧ · 10 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 思想家.

WordPinyinMeaning
意思yì siidea; opinion
思想sī xiǎngthought; thinking
思考sī kǎoto reflect on; to ponder over
思维 (思維)sī wéi(line of) thought; thinking
有意思yǒu yì siinteresting; meaningful
反思fǎn sīto think back over sth; to review
想要xiǎng yàoto want to; to feel like
不想bù xiǎngunexpectedly; to one's surprise
国家 (國家)guó jiācountry; nation; state

See also: Japanese symbol for “thinker”.

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.