saññã: Memory; recognition of physical and mental phenomena as they arise. As the third component of personality, saññã khandha is associated with the function of memory; for instance, recognition, association, and interpretation. Saññã both recognizes the known and gives meaning and significance to all of one”s personal perceptions. Through recollection of past experience, the function of memory gives things specific meanings and then falls for its own interpretation of them, causing one to become either sad or glad about what one perceives.

　　想(saññā)：記憶；當物質或心理現象生起時的認知。作爲五蘊的第叁蘊，想蘊與記憶的功能相關，例如：認知、聯想和诠釋。想辨識個人的所有感知，並且賦予意思和意義。通過之前的經驗與記憶的功能，想給予事物特定的意思來诠釋它，然後受這诠釋的影響，而産生悲傷或快樂。