Chinese Character 嚮 Meanings and components.

Form

嚮

Meaning

嚮 meaning[3] in English

To Tend Toward.

To Guide.

Variant Of 向[Xiang4].

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 嚮 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are country or countryside (鄉) , and surname Xiang (向)

Its radical[1] is: 口 (kou3) which means: Mouth, Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc), Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls, .口kou3mouth

In cangjie it is written with VLHBR

How to write 嚮

To write嚮xiang4to tend … you should write a combination of 鄉xiang1country or … , 向xiang4surname Xiang arranged in a 吕 shape:

鄉 + 向 = 嚮

嚮 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 嚮 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 嚮, looks as follow:

嚮
Pinyin:xiang4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Tend Toward . To Guide . Variant Of 向[Xiang4]
鄉
Pinyin:xiang1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Country Or Countryside . Native Place . Home Village Or Town . Township (Prc Administrative Unit)
乡
Pinyin:xiang1 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Country Or Countryside . Native Place . Home Village Or Town . Township (Prc Administrative Unit)
郎
Pinyin:lang2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Surname Lang
良
Pinyin:liang2 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Good . Very . Very Much
丶
Pinyin:zhu3
Meaning[3]: 'Dot' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 3) . See Also 點|点[Dian3]
艮
Pinyin:gen3
Meaning[3]: Blunt . Tough . Chewy
阝
Pinyin:fu4 Shape:一
向
Pinyin:xiang4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Xiang
丶
Pinyin:zhu3
Meaning[3]: 'Dot' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 3) . See Also 點|点[Dian3]
冋
Pinyin:jiong1 Shape:回
Meaning[3]: Archaic Variant Of 坰[Jiong1]
冂
Pinyin:jiong1
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 13), Occurring In 用, 同, 网 Etc . See Also 同字框[Tong2 Zi4 Kuang4]
囗
Pinyin:wei2
Meaning[3]: Enclosure

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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