李想

Lǐxiǎng

popculture

Meanings

1 Li Xiang (1981-), Chinese entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Li Auto (理想汽车), one of China's leading EV makers

Characters

surname Li; plum

to think; to want

Examples

李想创办了理想汽车。

Lǐ Xiǎng chuàngbànle Lǐxiǎng Qìchē.

Li Xiang founded Li Auto.

他是中国新能源车领域的代表人物之一。

Tā shì Zhōngguó xīn néngyuán chē lǐngyù de dàibiǎo rénwù zhī yī.

He is one of the representative figures in China's new-energy vehicle industry.

Tips

culture

李想 dropped out of high school and started autohome.com (汽车之家) before founding 理想汽车 in 2015. The company name is a pun: 理想 means 'ideal' and is built from his surname + 想. Together with Nio (蔚来) and XPeng (小鹏), it forms the 'new forces' trio (造车新势力) of Chinese EV startups.

memory

李想 sounds identical to 理想 ('ideal, aspiration') — an entrepreneur whose name literally means 'ambition'.

Stroke Order

李 lǐ

想 xiǎng