u/Federal-Meaning7405

你好， 我是an absolute beginner.

I read that '' can mean both to miss and to want.

E.g. 我想你， 我想咖啡。

To wrap my brain around this, I'm wondering if the core sense of this term is simply expressing the desire to bring two things together?

I want to be together with you,

I want me and the coffee to come together.

Obviously those are weird sentences but is the underlying sense of 想 the feeling of desire to be together or with someone/something?

If so then I don't have to remember it as two meanings and can assign it to one meaning. Maybe this is just way too specific lol