xiàng

resemble

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

象 sound component

  Sound component

xiàng

  

elephant

Evolution

像 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
像 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
像 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

xiàng

a picture, image, figure; to resemble; to be like; to look as if; such as; appearance; image; portrait; image under a mapping (math.)

Most common words with 像
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to resemble

好像

as if

偶像

idol

录像

to videotape

像素

pixel

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s.[d]aŋʔ

zjangX

xiàng

image; resemble


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 98.5584% of movies

116th most common character in movies

294th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+50CF

Shuowen

“像,象也。从人,从象,象亦聲。”


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