What does each part of 想 mean?
Hello! I am learning Mandarin and I have a question.

The character 想 means to think, desire, want. Correct?
Well I noticed there are several parts of this character. It looks like there is the following:
木 - I think means tree, wood lumber
目 - Means head... I think
心 - Means Heart

I understand the last two, your head and your heart make up your thoughts, desires and needs. That all makes sense. Like the connection of your head and your heart creates who you are, it creates what you think. but where does mu4; 木 come into play on this character?

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What does each part of 想 mean?
Hello! I am learning Mandarin and I have a question.

The character 想 means to think, desire, want. Correct?
Well I noticed there are several parts of this character. It looks like there is the following:
木 -  I think means tree, wood lumber
目 - Means head... I think
心 - Means Heart

I understand the last two, your head and your heart make up your thoughts, desires and needs. That all makes sense. Like the connection of your head and your heart creates who you are, it creates what you think. but where does mu4; 木 come into play on this character?

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take apart the word 想 ，相+心，想 reads like 相 (xiang)，想：think，miss，want，it's a psychological activity（心理活动） ，so many chanese words read like one part of its selfs,and have inner relationship whit another

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木 - tree
目 - eye
心 - heart

the symbols united in one character have no connection to its final meaning
especially for Simplified

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I just think it maybe can see in this way.
相and心.
相can mean your face,and of course,心is mean your heart.
So,what you think,what you really want,is not just in you heart,it can show on your face. ^ ^

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想means 1.think 2.hope 3.miss 4.guess 
As u think,想=木目心，木means tree,but u can consider it as substance,so it means everything. 目means eyes,心means heart.so 想=用心去看万物(see everything with the heart)

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Yeah... some words in Chinese can be very interesting to pick apart like this but you should only do it after you become very good with Chinese.

Sorry but bear234 is right...

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