以为

以為traditional

HSK 3#567 by frequencyradical 人

yǐ wéi["v"]

to think (i.e. to take it to be true that ...) (Usually there is an implication that the notion is mistaken – except when expressing one's own current opinion.)

Examples

他自以为是。

He believes himself to be infallible.

我以为你想等。

I thought you wanted to wait.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.