The word 休想 is formed by directly combining two conceptual actions into a single, forceful command. The first character, 休 (xiū), pictorially depicts a person (亻) resting against a tree (木), carrying the core meaning "to stop" or "to cease". It is paired with 想 (xiǎng), meaning "to think" or "to contemplate". Their union does not describe a literal "resting of thought", but creates a vivid, metaphorical injunction: it visually and notionally commands someone to stop their line of thinking entirely, yielding the emphatic meaning "don't even think about it".