向 xiàng in a sentence
To (direction - face - towards - look)
向 (xiàng) means To (direction - face - towards - look). Below are 5 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
From the graded readers
我回过头，看见他站在很远的地方，笑着 向 我招手。
wǒ huí guò tóu, kànjiàn tā zhàn zài hěn yuǎn de / dì dìfang, xiào zhāo / zhaó / zhe / zhù / zhuó xiàng wǒ zhāo shǒu.
I looked back and saw him standing far away, smiling and waving.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Learning to Ride a Bike
那天晚上，我给她发了一条很长的消息， 向 她道歉。
nà / nèi tiān wǎnshang, wǒ gěi tā fā le / liǎo / liào yī tiáo hěn cháng / zhǎng de / dì xiāoxi, xiàng tā dàoqiàn.
That night I sent her a long message apologising.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
From the travel phrasebook
这个方 向 对吗？
Zhège fāngxiàng duì ma?
Is this the right direction?
Travel phrasebook · High-speed rail and the metro
Words that contain 向
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 向
How is 向 used in a sentence?
This page shows 5 sentences using 向 (xiàng, "To (direction - face - towards - look)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 向 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 向 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 向 an HSK word?
Yes — 向 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 向?
The dictionary page for 向 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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