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联想

lián xiǎng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 聯想

联想 (lián xiǎng) means "to associate; to connect in one's mind". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 联想 means

1. to associate (cognitively)
2. to make an associative connection
3. mental association
4. word prediction and auto-complete functions of input method editing programs

Other readings

联想 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Lián xiǎngLenovo

The characters in 联想

• 联lián(bound form) to ally oneself with; to unite; to combine; to join…
• 想xiǎngto think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that)

Example sentences

• 这首歌会让我联想到他的名字。
  I associate this song with his name.
• 难怪我们会把蝙蝠和黑暗的地方联想在一起了。
  Nánguài wǒmen huì bǎ biānfú hé hēi'àn de dìfang liánxiǎng zàiyīqǐ le.
  No wonder we associate bats with dark places.

Words starting with 联想

• 联想起lián xiǎng qǐto associate; to think of
• 联想集团Lián xiǎng Jí tuánLenovo Group (PRC computer firm)
• 联想学习lián xiǎng xué xíassociative learning

Words containing 联想

• 对比联想duì bǐ lián xiǎng(psychology) contrastive association

Where 联想 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · liàng–lìn (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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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read lián xiǎng correctly.
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