像 (xiàng) — Chinese Character

像

xiàng

to resemble; to be like; to look as if; such as; appearance; image; portrait; image under a mapping (math.)

Radical: 亻 HSK 2 v, p, n, d pictophonetic

Components & Etymology

像 decomposes into the following components:

亻象

Semantic component: 亻; phonetic component: 象.

Common multi-character words and phrases that include 像.

人像

rén xiàng

佛像

fó xiàng

Buddhist image

倒像

dào xiàng

inverted image

偶像

ǒu xiàng

idol

像元

xiàng yuán

像差

xiàng chā

像样

xiàng yàng

presentable

像片

xiàng piàn

photo

像章

xiàng zhāng

badge

像素

xiàng sù

pixel

像话

xiàng huà

proper

像貌

xiàng mào

Characters that share the radical 亻.

Practice this character with stroke-order training, spaced repetition, and reading passages across all HSK levels.