xiàng in a sentence

Image (portrait - resemble - is like)

Full dictionary entry HSK 3 5 sentences

像 (xiàng) means Image (portrait - resemble - is like). 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

他很 他爸爸。

Tā hěn xiàng tā bàba.

He looks a lot like his father.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 ·

这个孩子 妈妈,眼睛很大。

Zhège háizi xiàng māma, yǎnjing hěn dà.

This child takes after her mother — big eyes.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 ·

From the graded readers

现在这个房间已经 我的家了。

xiànzài zhège fángjiān yǐjīng xiàng wǒ de(possessive) jiā le / liǎo / liào.

Now the room already feels like home.

Graded reader · HSK 2 · My New Room

那个声音又重又慢, 有人在搬东西。

nèigè shēngyīn yòu zhòng / chóng yòu màn, xiàng yǒurén zài bān dōngxī.

It was heavy and slow, like someone moving furniture.

Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Neighbour Upstairs

我停了大概三秒钟——那三秒钟对我来说 三个小时。

wǒ tíng le / liǎo / liào dàgài sān miǎo zhōng—— nà / nèi sān miǎo zhōng duì wǒ láishuō xiàng sān gè xiǎoshí.

I stopped for about three seconds — three seconds that felt like three hours to me.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech

Questions about 像

How is 像 used in a sentence?

This page shows 5 sentences using 像 (xiàng, "Image (portrait - resemble - is like)"), 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 像 inside a longer word?

Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 像 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.

Is 像 an HSK word?

Yes — 像 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 像?

The dictionary page for 像 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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