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Mythic Mandarin

象 (xiàng): meaning and stroke order

象 (xiàng) means elephant, 只, shape, form, appearance, to imitate.

象

Simplified
象
Traditional
象 (same form)
Pinyin
xiàng

Stroke order of 象

象

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 象

  1. xiàng
    • elephant
    • CL:隻|只[zhi1]
    • shape
    • form
    • appearance
    • to imitate

Radical and structure

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.

Words with 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).