向 - Mandarin word #243

向

xiàng

Traditional: 向

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Translation

to resemble, to be like, as if

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向

。

He looks like his father.

。

This looks real.

。

You are like a child.

。

He nodded towards me.

左zuǒ转zhuǎn。

Please turn left.

向 (xiàng) means to resemble, to be like, as if. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.

感觉

feeling, sense, to feel

好像

it seems like, apparently, as if

一样

same, alike, equally

以为

to think (mistakenly), to assume

真是

truly is, indeed

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

This word is part of lesson 5.