Ideographic: To keep the present 今 in mind 心Radical:

meaning for niàn:

  • - to read
  • - to study (a subject)
  • - to attend (a school)
  • - to read aloud
  • - to give (sb) a tongue-lashing (Classifiers: 顿 )
  • - to miss (sb)
  • - idea
  • - remembrance
  • - twenty (banker's anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿 )notion
  • - thought
  • - concept
  • - sense
  • - views
  • - ideology
  • - general impressionsto commemorate
  • - to remember
  • - Classifiers: 个 concept
  • - idea
  • - Classifiers: 个 faith
  • - belief
  • - convictionidea
  • - concept
  • - philosophy
  • - theory