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xiàng towards / to face / to turn towards / direction / to support / to side with / shortly before / formerly / always / all along / (suffix) suitable for ... / oriented to ...
xiàng to resemble / to be like / to look as if / such as / appearance / image / portrait / image under a mapping (math.)
xiāng country or countryside / native place / home village or town / township (PRC administrative unit)
xiǎng to think (about) / to think of; to devise / to think (that); to believe (that) / to desire; to want (to) / to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)
xiāng fragrant / sweet smelling / aromatic / savory or appetizing / (to eat) with relish / (of sleep) sound / perfume or spice / joss or incense stick / CL:根[gen1]
xiǎng echo / sound / noise / to make a sound / to sound / to ring / loud / classifier for noises
Xiāng surname Xiang
xiāng each other / one another / mutually / fret on the neck of a pipa 琵琶[pi2 pa5] (a fret on the soundboard is called a 品[pin3])
xiàng appearance / portrait / picture / government minister / (physics) phase / (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features) / to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc)
xiāng box / trunk / chest
xiàng back of neck / item / thing / term (in a mathematical formula) / sum (of money) / classifier for principles, items, clauses, tasks, research projects etc
xiǎng to enjoy / to benefit / to have the use of
xiàng to tend toward / to guide / variant of 向[xiang4]
xiàng variant of 向[xiang4] / direction / orientation / to face / to turn toward / to / towards / shortly before / formerly
Xiàng surname Xiang
xiáng (archaic) a school
刘翔 Liú Xiáng Liu Xiang (1983-), Chinese gold-medal hurdler of the 2004 Olympic Games
汨罗江 luó Jiāng Miluo River in Hunan province, tributary of the Xiang River 湘江[Xiang1 Jiang1], flows into Dongting Lake 洞庭湖[Dong4 ting2 Hu2]
楚汉战争 Chǔ Hàn Zhàn zhēng Chu-Han Contention (206-202 BC), power struggle between Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] of Han and Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu
xiàng oak / Quercus serrata
暗渡陈仓 àn Chén cāng lit. secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion
xiāng to inlay / to embed / ridge / border
鸿门宴 Hóng mén yàn Hongmen feast / (fig.) banquet set up with the aim of murdering a guest / refers to a famous episode in 206 BC when future Han emperor Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] escaped attempted murder by his rival Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3]
明修栈道,暗渡陈仓 míng xiū zhàn dào , àn Chén cāng lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion
Xiāng abbr. for Hunan 湖南 province in south central China / abbr. for Xiangjiang river in Hunan province


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