xiàng

guide

Phonosemantic compound. represents the sound and represents the meaning.

Components
鄉 sound component

  Sound component

xiāng

  

hometown

向 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

xiàngxiǎng

  

toward

Definitions

 

xiàng

guide, direct; incline to, favor

() 

xiàng

to tend toward; to guide; variant of [xiàng]

Most common words with 嚮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

towards

方向

direction

走向

direction

倾向

trend

向前

forward

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰaŋ-s

xjangH

xiàng

to face, approach


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 88.7074% of movies

305th most common character in movies

146th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+56AE


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