思想 (sīxiǎng) means Thought (idea - thinking). Below are 9 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
这本书讲的是古人的 思想 。
Zhè běn shū jiǎng de shì gǔrén de sīxiǎng.
This book is about the thought of the ancients.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 思想
这是文章的中心 思想 。
Zhè shì wénzhāng de zhōngxīn sīxiǎng.
This is the central idea of the article.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 中心
读书可以避免 思想 狭隘。
Dúshū kěyǐ bìmiǎn sīxiǎng xiá'ài.
Reading helps one avoid narrow-mindedness.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 狭隘
别把考试当成沉重的 思想 包袱。
Bié bǎ kǎoshì dàngchéng chénzhòng de sīxiǎng bāofu.
Don't treat the exam as a heavy psychological burden.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 包袱
儒家 思想 影响了中国两千多年。
Rújiā sīxiǎng yǐngxiǎng le Zhōngguó liǎngqiān duō nián.
Confucian thought has influenced China for over two thousand years.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 儒家
长期封闭的环境不利于 思想 开阔。
Chángqī fēngbì de huánjìng búlì yú sīxiǎng kāikuò.
A long-closed environment does not help broaden the mind.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 封闭
长期不读书会让人的 思想 变得闭塞。
Chángqī bù dúshū huì ràng rén de sīxiǎng biàn de bìsè.
Going a long time without reading makes a person's thinking narrow.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 闭塞
这本书介绍了几种主要的 思想 主义。
Zhè běn shū jièshào le jǐ zhǒng zhǔyào de sīxiǎng zhǔyì.
This book introduces several major schools of thought.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 主义
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Questions about 思想
How is 思想 used in a sentence?
This page shows 9 sentences using 思想 (sīxiǎng, "Thought (idea - thinking)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 思想 an HSK word?
Yes — 思想 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
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