思索

Chinese

		to think; to consider	to search; to demand; to ask to search; to demand; to ask; to exact; large rope; isolated
simp. and trad. (思索)		思	索
anagram		索思

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sīsuǒ

  (Zhuyin): ㄙ ㄙㄨㄛˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹ sok³

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): su-sek / sir-sok / su-sok / su-soh

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sīsuǒ
    • Zhuyin: ㄙ ㄙㄨㄛˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sihsuǒ
    • Wade–Giles: ssŭ¹-so³
    • Yale: sz̄-swǒ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sysuoo
    • Palladius: сысо (syso)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵⁵ su̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: si¹ sok³
    • Yale: sī sok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹ sok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi¹ sog³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵ sɔːk̚³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su-sek
    • Tâi-lô: su-sik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suseg
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /su⁴⁴⁻²² siɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sir-sok
    • Tâi-lô: sir-sok
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ³³ sɔk̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su-sok
    • Tâi-lô: su-sok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: susog
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /su⁴⁴⁻³³ sɔk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su-soh
    • Tâi-lô: su-soh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: susoiq
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /su⁴⁴⁻²² soʔ³²/

Verb

思索

1. to think deeply; to ponder

Synonyms

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• 冥思 (míngsī)
• 冥想 (míngxiǎng)
• 品味 (pǐnwèi)
• 尋味 / 寻味 (xúnwèi)
• 尋思 / 寻思
• 忖度 (cǔnduó)
• 念 (niàn)
• 思 (literary, or in compounds)
• 思忖 (sīcǔn)
• 思想 (sīxiǎng)
• 思慮 / 思虑 (sīlǜ)
• 思維 / 思维 (sīwéi)
• 思考 (sīkǎo)
• 思裁 (si¹ cai²) (Sichuanese)
• 思量 (sīliáng)
• 慎思 (shènsī)
• 掂掇 (colloquial)
• 推敲 (tuīqiāo)
• 掂量 (diānliáng)
• 揣摩 (chuǎimó)
• 斟酌 (zhēnzhuó) (figuratively)
• 權衡 / 权衡 (quánhéng)
• 沉思 (chénsī)
• 深思 (shēnsī)
• 照顧 / 照顾 (zhàogù)
• 玩味 (wánwèi)
• 玩弄 (Classical Chinese)
• 琢磨 (zuómo)
• 算度 (syun³ dok⁶) (Cantonese)
• 算計 / 算计 (suànjì)
• 考慮 / 考虑 (kǎolǜ)
• 考量 (kǎoliáng)
• 苦思 (kǔsī)
• 著想 / 着想 (zhuóxiǎng)
• 衡量 (héngliáng)
• 計算 / 计算 (jìsuàn)
• 計較 / 计较
• 設想 / 设想 (shèxiǎng)
• 顧全 / 顾全 (gùquán)
• 顧及 / 顾及 (gùjí)

Derived terms

• 不假思索 (bùjiǎsīsuǒ)
• 不加思索 (bùjiāsīsuǒ)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (思索):

• → Japanese: 思(し)索(さく) (shisaku)
• → Korean: 사색(思索) (sasaek)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
思	索
し Grade: 2	さく Grade: S
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) しさく [shìsákú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɕisa̠kɯ̟]

Noun

思(し)索(さく) • (shisaku) 

1. contemplation, thinking
2. meditation

Verb

思(し)索(さく)する • (shisaku suru) suru (stem 思(し)索(さく)し (shisaku shi), past 思(し)索(さく)した (shisaku shita))

1. to ponder, to contemplate
2. to meditate

Conjugation

Conjugation of "思索する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	思索し	しさくし	shisaku shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	思索し	しさくし	shisaku shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	思索する	しさくする	shisaku suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	思索する	しさくする	shisaku suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	思索すれ	しさくすれ	shisaku sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	思索せよ¹ 思索しろ²	しさくせよ¹ しさくしろ²	shisaku seyo¹ shisaku shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	思索される	しさくされる	shisaku sareru
Causative	思索させる 思索さす	しさくさせる しさくさす	shisaku saseru shisaku sasu
Potential	思索できる	しさくできる	shisaku dekiru
Volitional	思索しよう	しさくしよう	shisaku shiyō
Negative	思索しない	しさくしない	shisaku shinai
Negative continuative	思索せず	しさくせず	shisaku sezu
Formal	思索します	しさくします	shisaku shimasu
Perfective	思索した	しさくした	shisaku shita
Conjunctive	思索して	しさくして	shisaku shite
Hypothetical conditional	思索すれば	しさくすれば	shisaku sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

• “思索”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026