理想
Written lǐ xiǎng, said lí xiǎng — a third tone before another third tone is said as a second.
Meaning
- an ideal
- a dream
- ideal
Example sentence
你是我的理想情人。
You're the girl of my dreams.
Characters in 理想
- 理 lǐ reason, principle; to manage, to put in order
- 想 xiǎng to think (about)
理 principle plus 想 to think. An ideal is reasoned thought, and as an adjective it means ideal.