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Mythic Mandarin

向往 (xiàng wǎng): meaning and stroke order

向往 (xiàng wǎng) means to yearn for, to look forward to.

向往

Simplified
向往
Traditional
嚮往
Pinyin
xiàng wǎng

Stroke order of 向往

向

  • Xiàng surname Xiang
  • xiàng towards; to face
  • xiàng to tend toward; to guide
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 嚮

Stroke by stroke

往

  • wǎng to go (in a direction); to
  • wǎng old variant of 往[wang3]
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 徃

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 向往

  1. xiàng wǎng Traditional 嚮往
    • to yearn for
    • to look forward to

Radicals of the characters

向
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 6 strokes
往
Radical 彳 (Kangxi radical 60) · 8 strokes · 彳 on the left, 主 on the right

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.

向往 in our stories

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  • 女娃从小就向往大海。有一天，她一个人划着小船去东海玩，没想到突然起了大风，小船被巨浪打翻，她再也没有回来。

    Nǚwá cóngxiǎo jiù xiàngwǎng dàhǎi yǒu yì tiān tā yí gè rén huá zhe xiǎochuán qù Dōng Hǎi wán méi xiǎngdào tūrán qǐ le dà fēng xiǎochuán bèi jùlàng dǎfān tā zài yě méiyǒu huílai

    From childhood Nüwa longed for the sea. One day she rowed alone out onto the Eastern Sea to play; unexpectedly a gale blew up, a huge wave overturned the boat, and she never came back.

    From the story Jingwei fills the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • 她向往人间的生活，就带着修炼了五百年的青蛇小青，来到了风景如画的杭州西湖。

    tā xiàngwǎng rénjiān de shēnghuó jiù dài zhe xiūliàn le wǔbǎi nián de qīngshé Xiǎoqīng láidào le fēngjǐng rú huà de Hángzhōu Xī Hú

    Longing for life among humans, she took the Green Snake, Xiaoqing, who had cultivated for five hundred years, and came to West Lake in picturesque Hangzhou.

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

Stories using 向往

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).