xiáng

soar

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
羽 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

feather

羊 sound component

  Sound component

yáng

  

sheep

Evolution

翔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
翔 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

xiáng

soar, glide, hover; detailed; to soar; to glide; variant of |[xiáng]

Most common words with 翔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

飞翔

to soar

to soar

刘翔

Liu Xiang (1983-), Chinese gold-medal hurdler of the 2004 Olympic Games

翱翔

to soar

滑翔

to glide