หมาย ถึง อะไร
“หมาย ถึง อะไร” (маай тхынг арай) — what does it mean? in Thai. Phrase, level A2. Literally "aims at what?": the aim is to aim and to intend at once, and the second word is "at, up to". A meaning Thai does not "have" — it aims it at the sense, like an arrow. In a live sentence: “คำ นี้ หมาย ถึง อะไร” — What does this word mean? Written with the characters ห, ม, า, ย, ถ, ึ, ง, อ, ะ, ไ, ร.
In short
| Written in Thai | หมาย ถึง อะไร |
| Read in Latin letters | маай тхынг арай |
| Translation | what does it mean? |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "aims at what?": the aim is to aim and to intend at once, and the second word is "at, up to". A meaning Thai does not "have" — it aims it at the sense, like an arrow
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- คำ นี้ หมาย ถึง อะไรкхам ний маай тхынг арайWhat does this word mean?
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “what does it mean?” in Thai?
«หมาย ถึง อะไร», read “маай тхынг арай”. In a live sentence: “คำ นี้ หมาย ถึง อะไร” — What does this word mean? Phrase, level A2; written with the characters ห, ม, า, ย, ถ, ึ, ง, อ, ะ, ไ, ร.
How is “หมาย ถึง อะไร” written in Latin letters?
маай тхынг арай. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Literally "aims at what?": the aim is to aim and to intend at once, and the second word is "at, up to". A meaning Thai does not "have" — it aims it at the sense, like an arrow. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.