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思う [ichi1,news1,nf02] ；想う；憶う [rK] ；念う [rK] ；懐う [sK] ；惟う [sK] ；意う [sK]
【おもう [ichi1,news1,nf02] 】

1.	[v5u,vt] 《想う has connotations of heart-felt》 ▶ to think ▶ to consider ▶ to believe ▶ to reckon
2.	[v5u,vt] ▶ to think (of doing) ▶ to plan (to do)
3.	[v5u,vt] ▶ to judge ▶ to assess ▶ to regard
4.	[v5u,vt] ▶ to imagine ▶ to suppose ▶ to dream
5.	[v5u,vt] ▶ to expect ▶ to look forward to
6.	[v5u,vt] ▶ to feel ▶ to be (in a state of mind) ▶ to desire ▶ to want
7.	[v5u,vt] ▶ to recall ▶ to remember

Conjugations

History:

9.	A 2023-09-28 12:05:08 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
8.	A* 2023-09-25 15:24:33 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	Google N-gram Corpus Counts ╭─ーーー─┬─────────────┬───────╮ │ 思う　 │ 102,840,814 │ 97.5% │ │ 想う　 │ 1,037,400 │ 1.0% │ │ 念う　 │ 1,450 │ 0.0% │ - rK (daijs, koj) │ 憶う　 │ 4,475 │ 0.0% │ - rK (daijs, koj, sankoku) │ 懐う　 │ 562 │ 0.0% │ - sK (mentioned in meikyo, smk) │ 惟う　 │ 439 │ 0.0% │ - sK (mentioned in meikyo) │ 意う　 │ 259 │ 0.0% │ - add, sK (mentioned in smk) │ おもう │ 1,567,967 │ 1.5% │ ╰─ーーー─┴─────────────┴───────╯
	Diff:	@@ -14 +14,2 @@ -<keb>念う</keb> +<keb>憶う</keb> +<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf> @@ -17 +18,2 @@ -<keb>憶う</keb> +<keb>念う</keb> +<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf> @@ -20,0 +23 @@ +<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf> @@ -23,0 +27,5 @@ +<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf> +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>意う</keb> +<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
7.	A 2018-09-19 01:01:16 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
6.	A* 2018-09-18 09:07:43
	Refs:	GG5
	Diff:	@@ -37,0 +38 @@ +<gloss>to reckon</gloss>
5.	A 2018-04-19 08:30:05 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
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4.	A* 2018-04-19 07:30:34 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	e.g. ありがたく思え: be grateful! also for 嬉しく思う I think "I'm happy (about x)" is maybe a more reasonable translation than the literal "I feel..."
	Diff:	@@ -68,0 +69 @@ +<gloss>to be (in a state of mind)</gloss>
3.	A 2011-11-02 21:58:10 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
2.	A* 2011-11-02 07:15:42 Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	koj, daijr, daijs, meikyo have all of these headwords. none are iK. adding 惟う from meikyo
	Comments:	meikyo has the best usage notes: 【表記】 (1)「想う」は、主に心にイメージを描く意で「幼少のころを想う」「想う人はもういない」などと使うが、今は一般に「思う」でまかなう。 (2)忘れないで思う意で「▽憶う」、懐かしく思い出すといった意味合いで「▽懐う」、心を傾注して考える意で「▼惟う」、心中深くかみしめて思う、念じる意で「▽念う」とも書き、それぞれ「過ぎし日のことを憶う」「故郷を懐う」「人世の無常を惟う」「仏を念って仏道に帰依する／幸いあれと念う」などと使うが、これも今は「思う」でまかなう。 i'll leave it up to Jim to decide what note should be added. i'm not sure any necessarily needs to be added.
	Diff:	@@ -12,1 +12,0 @@ -<ke_inf>&iK;</ke_inf> @@ -16,1 +15,0 @@ -<ke_inf>&iK;</ke_inf> @@ -20,1 +18,0 @@ -<ke_inf>&iK;</ke_inf> @@ -24,1 +21,3 @@ -<ke_inf>&iK;</ke_inf> +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>惟う</keb>
1.	A* 2011-11-02 06:53:13 Nils Roland Barth <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q129943227 References and quotes 「『ことば』シリーズ29 言葉に関する問答集14」（文化庁）
	Comments:	Note on 想 – which is the most used variant. I’ve marked the variants as [iK] – dunno exactly what the criterion for [iK] is (just mailed list), but only 思う appears in major dictionaries (想う appears in some minor ones, but marked with a triangle).
	Diff:	@@ -12,0 +12,5 @@ +<ke_inf>&iK;</ke_inf> +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>念う</keb> +<ke_inf>&iK;</ke_inf> @@ -15,3 +20,1 @@ -</k_ele> -<k_ele> -<keb>念う</keb> +<ke_inf>&iK;</ke_inf> @@ -21,0 +24,1 @@ +<ke_inf>&iK;</ke_inf> @@ -31,0 +35,1 @@ +<s_inf>想う has connotations of heart-felt</s_inf>

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