巷 (xiàng)
Lane (used in addresses); alley
How 巷 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 艹 — grass
- Traditional
- 巷
- Simplified
- 巷 (unchanged)
Components
- 艹 grass
- 一 one
- 八 eight/divide
- 巳 oneself
Common words using 巷
- 大街小巷 dàjiēxiǎoxiàng
- great streets and small alleys (idiom); everywhere in the city
- 小巷 xiǎoxiàng
- alley
- 巷弄 xiànglòng
- alley; lane
- 死巷 sǐxiàng
- blind alley; dead end
- 窄巷 zhǎixiàng
- narrow alley; narrow street
- 街頭巷尾 jiētóuxiàngwěi
- top of streets, bottom of alleys (idiom); everywhere in the city
巷 in a sentence
我家住在這條巷子裡。
Wǒ jiā zhù zài zhè tiáo xiàngzi lǐ.
“My home is located in this lane.”
How common is 巷?
巷 is the 2,394th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 98.3% of all running text.
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