xiàng, xiǎng
toward
Depicts a mouth (口) in a closed space (宀) making an echo sound. Based on the original meaning "echo; sound", now written as 響. The meaning later shifted to "direction" and "toward".
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
Modernxiàng
toward, direction, trend; towards; to face; to turn towards; direction; to support; to side with; shortly before; formerly; always; all along; (suffix) suitable for ...; oriented to ...
Xiàng
surname Xiang
xiǎng
once upon time; period of time
xiàng
variant of 向[xiàng]; orientation; to turn toward; to
xiàng
to tend toward; to guide
Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*n̥aŋ-s | xjangH | xiàng | window facing North; turn towards |
HSK level 2
Appears in 88.7074% of movies
305th most common character in movies
146th most common character in books
Strokes | 6 |
Simplified | |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+5411 |
Shuowen | “向，北出牖也。从宀，从口。” |
