Sinograph Addenda · Signs

heart

Name	heart
Reads	xīn
Means	heart; mind — where classical thought happens
Taught in	07 · Doing and being

Where it comes from

The heart drawn with its chambers, four strokes. In classical thought it is the organ of thinking as much as feeling — where resolve, doubt, and understanding all live. Taught in the doing-and-being chapter.

How to remember it

Three quick beats and a curve: the heart. When the classics say “heart,” read “mind” too — they never split the two.

In the wild

天下歸心。tiān xià guī xīn"the hearts of all under heaven come home" — the phrase of won loyalty, from an elegy in the great anthology

Wen xuan (Selections of Refined Literature). urn:nabu:kanripo:KR4h0001:047:31a · license: attribution.