| 观念 | guān niàn | notion / thought / concept / sense / views / ideology / general impressions |   |
| 想法 | xiǎng fǎ | way of thinking / opinion / notion / to think of a way (to do sth) | |
| 以为 | yǐ wéi | to think (i.e. to take it to be true that ...) (Usually there is an implication that the notion is mistaken &ndash / except when expressing one's own current opinion.) | |
| 偏执 | piān zhí | extreme and inflexible / fixated / stubborn in clinging to a notion / (psychology) paranoid | |
| 先入为主 | xiān rù wéi zhǔ | (idiom) the first impression is the strongest / to hold a preconceived notion (about sth) | |
| 深明大义 | shēn míng dà yì | to have a high notion of one's duty / to be highly principled | |
| 强迫观念 | qiǎng pò guān niàn | compelling notion / obsession | |
| 心理作用 | xīn lǐ zuò yòng | a perception that doesn't reflect reality / a notion based on an erroneous belief | |
| 怪念头 | guài niàn tou | eccentric notion / strange whim | |
| 抽象概念 | chōu xiàng gài niàn | abstract notion | |
| 本罪 | běn zuì | actual sin (Christian notion, as opposed to original sin 原罪) | |
| 笑贫不笑娼 | xiào pín bù xiào chāng | the notion in society that it's better to get ahead in the world by abandoning one's scruples than to suffer poverty / lit. despising poverty but not prostitution (idiom) | |
| 自罪 | zì zuì | actual sin (Christian notion, as opposed to original sin 原罪) / conscious sin | |
| 伪命题 | wěi mìng tí | false proposition / fundamentally flawed notion / (in popular usage, can also refer to anything based on a flawed notion, such as a false dichotomy or a question that starts with a false premise) | |
