思量

Chinese

		to think; to consider	capacity; quantity; amount capacity; quantity; amount; to estimate; to measure
simp. and trad. (思量)		思	量

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): sīliáng

  (Zhuyin): ㄙ ㄌㄧㄤˊ

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): сылён (sɨli͡on, I-II)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹ loeng⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): su-niû / sir-niû / su-niô͘ / su-liông / sir-liông / su-liōng / su-liāng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sīliáng → sīliang (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄙ ㄌㄧㄤˊ → ㄙ ˙ㄌㄧㄤ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sihliång
    • Wade–Giles: ssŭ¹-liang⁵
    • Yale: sz̄-lyang
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sy.liang
    • Palladius: сылян (syljan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵⁵ li̯ɑŋ³⁵/ → /sz̩⁵⁵ li̯ɑŋ²/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: сылён (sɨli͡on, I-II)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩²⁴ liɑŋ⁵¹/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: si¹ loeng⁴
    • Yale: sī lèuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹ loeng⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi¹ lêng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵ lœːŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su-niû
    • Tâi-lô: su-niû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suniuu
    • IPA (Taipei): /su⁴⁴⁻³³ niũ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /su⁴⁴⁻³³ niũ²³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /su⁴⁴⁻²² niũ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sir-niû
    • Tâi-lô: sir-niû
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ³³ niũ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su-niô͘
    • Tâi-lô: su-niôo
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /su⁴⁴⁻²² niɔ̃¹³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su-liông
    • Tâi-lô: su-liông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sulioong
    • IPA (Xiamen): /su⁴⁴⁻²² liɔŋ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sir-liông
    • Tâi-lô: sir-liông
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ³³ liɔŋ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su-liōng
    • Tâi-lô: su-liōng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suliong
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /su⁴⁴⁻³³ liɔŋ³³/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su-liāng
    • Tâi-lô: su-liāng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suliang
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /su⁴⁴⁻³³ liaŋ³³/

Verb

思量

1. to reckon; to consider; to turn over in one's mind; to speculate
2. (literary) to miss; to long for

Synonyms

• (to reckon):

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

 

• (to miss):

• 念想 (niànxiǎng)
• 思 (literary, or in compounds)
• 思念 (sīniàn)
• 思慕 (sīmù)
• 想念 (xiǎngniàn)
• 感想 (gǎnxiǎng) (literary)
• 懷／怀 (huái) (literary)
• 懷念／怀念 (huáiniàn)
• 懷想／怀想 (huáixiǎng)
• 相思 (xiāngsī)
• 眷念 (juànniàn) (formal)
• 眷戀／眷恋 (juànliàn) (formal)

 

Derived terms

• 心口思量
• 毫不思量
• 沒做思量處／没做思量处
• 費思量／费思量

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (思量):

• → Japanese: 思(し)量(りょう) (shiryō)

Other:

• → Middle Korean: ᄉᆞ라ᇰ (solang)
  • Korean: 사랑 (sarang, “love”)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
思	量
し Grade: 2	りょう Grade: 4
on’yomi	kan’on

Etymology

/sirjau/ → /ɕirjɔː/ → /ɕirjoː/

From Middle Chinese 思量 (MC si|siH ljang|ljangH). First attested in Japanese in a text from 903.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) しりょー [shìryóó] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɕiɾʲo̞ː]

Noun

思(し)量(りょう) • (shiryō) ^{←しりやう (siryau)?}

1. [from 903] consideration, deliberation, thought about something

Verb

思(し)量(りょう)する • (shiryō suru) ^{←しりやう (siryau)?}transitive suru (stem 思(し)量(りょう)し (shiryō shi), past 思(し)量(りょう)した (shiryō shita))

1. [from 903] to consider, to deliberate, to think about something

Conjugation

Conjugation of "思量する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	思量し	しりょうし	shiryō shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	思量し	しりょうし	shiryō shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	思量する	しりょうする	shiryō suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	思量する	しりょうする	shiryō suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	思量すれ	しりょうすれ	shiryō sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	思量せよ¹ 思量しろ²	しりょうせよ¹ しりょうしろ²	shiryō seyo¹ shiryō shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	思量される	しりょうされる	shiryō sareru
Causative	思量させる 思量さす	しりょうさせる しりょうさす	shiryō saseru shiryō sasu
Potential	思量できる	しりょうできる	shiryō dekiru
Volitional	思量しよう	しりょうしよう	shiryō shiyō
Negative	思量しない	しりょうしない	shiryō shinai
Negative continuative	思量せず	しりょうせず	shiryō sezu
Formal	思量します	しりょうします	shiryō shimasu
Perfective	思量した	しりょうした	shiryō shita
Conjunctive	思量して	しりょうして	shiryō shite
Hypothetical conditional	思量すれば	しりょうすれば	shiryō sureba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative

References

• Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
• 2002, Yasuo Kitahara, 明鏡国語辞典 (Meikyō Kokugo Jiten), First Edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN
• “思量”, in デジタル大辞泉‎^[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months