祥 (xiáng)
auspicious; lucky
How 祥 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 礻 — sign
- Traditional
- 祥
- Simplified
- 祥 (unchanged)
Components
- 礻 sign
- 羊 sheep
Common words using 祥
- 吉祥 jíxiáng
- lucky; auspicious; propitious
- 不祥 bùxiáng
- ominous; inauspicious
- 不祥之兆 bùxiángzhīzhào
- bad omen
- 吉祥物 jíxiángwù
- mascot
- 和氣緻祥 héqìzhìxiáng
- (idiom) amiability leads to harmony
- 嘉祥 jiāxiáng
- Jiaxiang county in Jining 濟寧|济宁, Shandong
- 安祥 ānxiáng
- serene; composed; unruffled
- 慈祥 cíxiáng
- kindly; benevolent (often of older person)
- 憑祥 píngxiáng
- Pingxiang county level city in Chongzuo 崇左[Chong2 zuo3], Guangxi
- 憑祥市 píngxiángshì
- Pingxiang county level city in Chongzuo 崇左[Chong2 zuo3], Guangxi
- 發祥 fāxiáng
- to give rise to (sth good); to emanate from
- 發祥地 fāxiángdì
- the birthplace (of sth good); the cradle (e.g. of art)
祥 in a sentence
過年的時候，大家都會說吉祥話。
Guònián de shíhòu, dàjiā dōu huì shuō jíxiánghuà.
“During Chinese New Year, everyone says auspicious words.”
How common is 祥?
祥 is the 1,672nd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 95.6% of all running text.
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