念

niàn

Meaning

to read
to study (a subject)
to attend (a school)
to read aloud
to miss (sb)
idea
remembrance
twenty (banker's anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿, 20)

Pinyin: niàn

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念 niànto think of, to recall; to study Primary radical心 · heart

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