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)：记忆；当物质或心理现象生起时的认知。作为五蕴的第三蕴，想蕴与记忆的功能相关，例如：认知、联想和诠释。想辨识个人的所有感知，并且赋予意思和意义。通过之前的经验与记忆的功能，想给予事物特定的意思来诠释它，然后受这诠释的影响，而产生悲伤或快乐。