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Mythic Mandarin

想象 (xiǎng xiàng): meaning and stroke order

想象 (xiǎng xiàng) means to imagine; to envision, imagination.

想象

Simplified
想象
Traditional
想象 (same form)
Pinyin
xiǎng xiàng

Stroke order of 想象

想

  • xiǎng to think (about); to think of; to devise
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

象

  • xiàng elephant; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 想象

  1. xiǎng xiàng
    • to imagine; to envision
    • imagination

Radicals of the characters

想
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 13 strokes · 相 on top, 心 below
象
Radical 豕 (Kangxi radical 152) · 12 strokes · built from 𠮥 and 𧰨

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

想象 in our stories

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  • 报名的人比想象的多得多：有德国学生，有意大利学生，还有一个土耳其厨师带来的队。

    bàomíng de rén bǐ xiǎngxiàng de duō de duō yǒu Déguó xuésheng yǒu Yìdàlì xuésheng háiyǒu yí gè Tǔ'ěrqí chúshī dàilái de duì

    Far more people signed up than they had imagined: German students, Italian students, and a team led by a Turkish chef.

    From the story Dragon boats in Hamburg HSK 5

  • 今天的雷峰塔是后来重建的。每年都有无数游客来到断桥，在雨中撑一把伞，想象一千年前的那次相遇。

    jīntiān de Léifēng Tǎ shì hòulái chóngjiàn de měi nián dōu yǒu wúshù yóukè láidào Duànqiáo zài yǔ zhōng chēng yì bǎ sǎn xiǎngxiàng yìqiān nián qián de nà cì xiāngyù

    Today's Leifeng Pagoda was rebuilt later. Every year countless visitors come to the Broken Bridge, open an umbrella in the rain and imagine that meeting a thousand years ago.

    From the story The Legend of the White Snake HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 想象

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).