像

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

likeness

HSK 2 N2

Communication →Language

xiàng

ゾウ

상

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 象 represents the sound.

Components

亻 person (side)+ 象 elephant =

像 likeness

亻 Meaning component

rén person (side)

亻 is a component form of 人.

象 Phonetic component

xiàng elephant

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Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

像

Regular

Modern

Chinese

像 [xiàng]

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

Japanese

像ぞう同音

noun

image; figure; statue; picture; portrait
figure; form; shape; appearance
physicsmathematics image

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (1)

その像は型に入れられて作られた。

The statue was cast in a mold.

Japanese Names

像ぞう

Zou surname

CHINESE WORDS (140)

影像 [yǐngxiàng] #4,802

image

摄像 [shèxiàng] #10,313

to videotape

摄像 [shèxiàng] #10,313

to videotape

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JAPANESE WORDS (200)

想像がつく [そうぞうがつく] #7,693

to be imaginable

⭐ 想像力 [そうぞうりょく] #7,917

(power of) imagination

想像を絶する [そうぞうをぜっする] #16,360

beyond imagination

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KOREAN WORDS (16)

Buddhist image; Buddhist statue

상상력

imaginative power; imagination

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