相思

Chinese

		each other; appearance; portrait each other; appearance; portrait; picture; one another; mutually	to think; to consider
simp. and trad. (相思)		相	思

Verb

相思

1. to yearn for; to pine for; to miss each other

   飽受相思之苦／饱受相思之苦  ―  bǎoshòu xiāngsī zhī kǔ  ―  to suffer from severe lovesickness

Synonyms

(deprecated template usage)

edit

• 念想 (niànxiǎng)
• 思 (literary, or in compounds)
• 思念 (sīniàn)
• 思慕 (sīmù)
• 思量 (sīliáng) (literary)
• 想念 (xiǎngniàn)
• 感想 (gǎnxiǎng) (literary)
• 憶著／忆着 (Xiamen Hokkien, Quanzhou Hokkien)
• 懷／怀 (huái) (literary)
• 懷念／怀念 (huáiniàn)
• 懷想／怀想 (huáixiǎng)
• 眷念 (juànniàn) (formal)
• 眷戀／眷恋 (juànliàn) (formal)

 

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 相思

1. lovesickness
2. (Kinmenese Hokkien) acacia, especially the Taiwan acacia (Acacia confusa)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 相思樹 (“Taiwan acacia”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		相思樹
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	相思樹
Cantonese	Hong Kong	臺灣相思
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	香絲樹, 相思樹
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	香絲樹, 相思樹
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	香絲樹, 相思樹
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	香絲樹, 相思樹
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	香絲樹, 相思樹
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	相思樹
Southern Min	Taipei	相思仔
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	相思仔
	Kaohsiung	相思仔
	Yilan	相思仔
	Changhua (Lukang)	相思欉
	Taichung	相思仔
	Tainan	相思仔
	Hsinchu	相思仔
	Kinmen	相思
	Penghu (Magong)	相思樹

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (相思):

• → Japanese: 相(そう)思(し) (sōshi)
• → Korean: 상사(相思) (sangsa)
• → Vietnamese: tương tư (相思)

(deprecated template usage)

---

Japanese

Kanji in this term
相	思
そう Grade: 3	し Grade: 2
goon

Noun

相(そう)思(し) • (sōshi) ^{←さうし (sausi)?}

1. Synonym of 相思相愛 (sōshi sōai, “mutual love”)

See also

• 相(ソウ)思(シ)樹(ジュ) (sōshiju)
• 相(ソウ)思(シ)鳥(チョウ) (sōshichō)