xiǎng

make sound

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

向 sound component

  Sound component

xiàngxiǎng

  

toward

Evolution

响 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
响 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
响 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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xiǎng

make sound, make noise; sound; echo; noise; to make a sound; to sound; to ring; loud; classifier for noises

Most common words with 响
Freq.
Word
Meaning

影响

influence

echo

影响力

influence

音响

sound

响应

answer

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 50.6647% of movies

896th most common character in movies

503rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+54CD


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