xiàng
resemble
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 象 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
xiàng
a picture, image, figure; to resemble; to be like; to look as if; such as; appearance; image; portrait; image under a mapping (math.)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s.[d]aŋʔ | zjangX | xiàng | image; resemble |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 98.5584% of movies
116th most common character in movies
294th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+50CF |
Shuowen | “像，象也。从人，从象，象亦聲。” |
Sources
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