(xiàng) - to resemble, to be like; image, likeness in Mandarin
xiàngTraditional: 像
Translation
to resemble, to be like; image, likeness
Word origin
The character 像 (xiàng) 'to resemble, image' is a phono-semantic compound: the 亻 'person' radical supplies the meaning of likeness, while 象 (xiàng) 'elephant' provides the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 亻 (person radical) + 象 (xiàng, phonetic)
Stroke order
像
Examples
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She looks a lot like her mother.
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He looks like his father.
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He talks just like an adult.
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This child looks like his dad.
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He looks a lot like his father.
Where this fits
Appears in 4 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 像.
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