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思维

sī wéi

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 思維

思维 (sī wéi) means "(line of) thought, thinking". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 思维 means

1. (line of) thought; thinking

The characters in 思维

• 思sīto think; to consider
• 维wéito preserve; to maintain; to hold together

Example sentences

• 保持理性的思维。
  Bǎochí lǐxìng de sīwéi.
  Maintain rational thought.
• 他的思维方式很幼稚。
  Tā de sīwéi fāngshì hěn yòuzhì.
  His way of thinking is very childish.
• 学习物理能够改变思维。
  Xuéxí wùlǐ nénggòu gǎibiàn sīwéi.
  Learning physics can change your way of thinking.
• 他对自己的思维方式进行着很多思考。
  He puts a lot of thought into how he thinks.
• 女人的思维很有跳跃性：从仰慕到爱慕，从爱慕到结婚都是一眨眼间的事。
  Nǚrén de sīwéi hěn yǒu tiàoyuè xìng: cóng yǎngmù dào àimù, cóng àimù dào jiéhūn dōu shì yīzhǎyǎn jiān de shì.
  A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.
• 今天是 2013 年 9 月 4 日。有人说世界语就像西班牙语或义大利语。其实，这些语言就像杏仁牛轧糖或巧克力蛋糕一样甜美。世界语的味道更微妙，就像豆腐、萝卜或蚝油蒸蔬菜的味道。世界语比国际语、西班牙语、义大利语、法语或葡萄牙语更适合中部地区的思维。它确实更适合东方人的思维。
  It is the 4th of September of 2013. Some say that Esperanto is like Spanish or Italian. Actually, these latter languages are sweet like almond nougat or chocolate cake. Esperanto has a more subtle taste like tofu, radish, or steamed vegetables with oyster sauce. Esperanto suits the Centralian mind better than does Interlingua, Spanish, Italian, French, or Portuguese. It really is more suitable for an Eastern mind.

Words starting with 思维

• 思维地图sī wéi dì túmind map
• 思维导图sī wéi dǎo túmind map
• 思维敏捷sī wéi mǐn jiéquick-witted; agile of mind

Words containing 思维

• 成长型思维chéng zhǎng xíng sī wéigrowth mindset
• 康思维恩格Kāng sī wéi ēn géKongsvinger (city in Hedemark, Norway)
• 固定型思维gù dìng xíng sī wéifixed mindset (as opposed to growth mindset)
• 抽象思维chōu xiàng sī wéiabstract thought; logical thinking

Sounds the same

Read sī wéi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 思惟variant of 思维

Where 思维 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shuàn–sī (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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