向往 xiàngwǎng

HSK level

Traditional form

嚮往

Part of speech

Adverb / 副词 fù cí Fù cí

向 Xiàng

Explanation

Depicts a mouth (口 kǒu ) in a closed space (宀 gài ) making an echo sound. Based on the original meaning "echo; sound", now written as 響 xiǎng . The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Positional decomposition

⿵？口 kǒu

Number of Strokes

往 wǎng

Type

pictophonetic

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. 彳 chì and 止 zhǐ represent the meaning, and 王 Wáng represents the sound.

Phonetic compound

王 Wáng

Semantic compound

彳 chì

Positional decomposition

⿰彳 chì ⿱？王 Wáng

Number of Strokes

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See the 5 Chinese characters that make up 向往 xiàngwǎng and their own compounds.

向 Xiàng

冋 jiōng

囗 wéi , 冂 jiōng

丶 diǎn

往 wǎng

主 zhǔ

王 Wáng , 丶 diǎn

彳 chì

See all 14 Chinese words that contain the characters that make up the word 向往 xiàngwǎng in their composition.

向 Xiàng

响 xiǎng , 饷 xiǎng , 晌 shǎng , 垧 shǎng , 晑 xiǎng , 嚮 xiàng , 姠, 恦, 扄, 珦, 逈, 銄, 餉 xiǎng

往 wǎng

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