像 (xiàng)
to resemble/to be like/appearance
How 像 is written
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 亻 — human
- Traditional
- 像
- Simplified
- 像 (unchanged)
Components
- 亻 human
- ⺈ knife
- 口 mouth
- 丨 line
- 勹 wrap
Common words using 像
- 好像 hǎoxiàng
- as if; to seem like
- 偶像 ǒuxiàng
- idol
- 想像 xiǎngxiàng
- to imagine; to conceive of; to visualize
- 頭像 tóuxiàng
- portrait; bust
- 不像樣 bùxiàngyàng
- in no shape to be seen; unpresentable; beyond recognition
- 不像話 bùxiànghuà
- unreasonable; shocking; outrageous
- 佛像 fóxiàng
- Buddhist image; statue of Buddha or Bodhisattva; CL:尊[zun1], 張|张[zhang1]
- 倒像 dàoxiàng
- inverted image; reversed image (e.g. upside-down)
- 偶像劇 ǒuxiàngjù
- idol drama; drama series in which the actors are chosen for their pre-existing popularity with young viewers
- 像樣 xiàngyàng
- presentable; decent; up to par
- 像片 xiàngpiàn
- photo
- 像章 xiàngzhāng
- badge; insignia; lapel badge (e.g. with miniature portrait of great national leader)
像 in a sentence
你長得很像你爸爸。
Nǐ zhǎng de hěn xiàng nǐ bàba.
“You look a lot like your father.”
How common is 像?
像 is the 294th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 64.2% of all running text.
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