Mao Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Heart (xīn) Thought; Kangxi stroke count: 13 Page 392, Entry 26 Pronounced xiǎng. Shuowen Jiezi (Dictionary of Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters): To hope and think. Commentary: To hope for and to think upon. Book of the Later Han (Houhan Shu), Biography of Wang Ba: To dream and think of worthy scholars. Book of Jin (Jin Shu), Biography of Xie An: To think leisurely of distant things. Additionally, Zeng Yun (Added Rhymes Dictionary): To contemplate. To contemplate something that has not yet arrived. Additionally, Rites of Zhou (Zhou Li), Office of Spring: The official in charge of ominous signs (shì jìn) manages the laws of the ten radiances, to observe auspicious and ominous omens, and to distinguish between good and evil. The tenth is called xiǎng. Commentary: Zheng Sinong said: xiǎng refers to radiance. Zheng Kangcheng said: xiǎng is a mixed vapor that has something it resembles, which can be visualized in thought. Six Writings Essential Principles (Liushu Jingyun): When the heart has desires, it thinks. The character is composed of heart and appearance, meaning there is something upon which the mind is fixed.