想見

Chinese

		to think; to believe; to suppose to think; to believe; to suppose; to wish; to want; to miss	to see; to meet; to appear to see; to meet; to appear; to interview
trad. (想見)		想	見
simp. (想见)		想	见

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]aŋʔ [k]ˤen-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*slaŋʔ keːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	想	見
Reading #	1/1	1/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiǎng	jiàn
Middle Chinese	‹ sjang^X ›	‹ ken^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]aŋʔ/	/*[k]ˁen-s/
English	think	see (v.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

想見

to see in one's imagination; to imagine; to envision
- 余讀孔氏書，想見其為人。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  余读孔氏书，想见其为人。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE
  Yú dú Kǒngshì shū, xiǎngjiàn qí wéirén. [Pinyin]
  When I was reading the works of Confucius, I can feel his character.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 想 (xiǎng),‎ 見／见.
1. to want to meet; to seek audience

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