曏 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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pīnyīn

ㄅㄆㄇㄈ

曏

xiàng, xiǎng

toward

Variant of 向.

Evolution

曏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Definitions

xiǎng

once upon time; period of time

xiàng

variant of 向[xiàng]; direction; orientation; to face; to turn toward; to; towards; shortly before; formerly

Most common words with 曏

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	向	towards
	方向	direction
	走向	direction
	倾向	trend
	向前	forward

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*n̥aŋʔ	syangX	shǎng	a short time
*n̥aŋ-s	syangH	shàng	a short time
n̥aŋʔ (W dialect: n̥- > MC x-)	xjangX	xiǎng	a short time
n̥aŋʔ-s (W dialect: n̥- > MC x-)	xjangH	xiàng	a short time

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 88.7074% of movies

305th most common character in movies

146th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	15
Simplified	向
Unicode	U+66CF
Shuowen	“曏，不久前。从日，鄉聲。”

Sources

Academia Sinica

MTSU Chinese text computing

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