to resemble / to be like / to look as if / such as / appearance / image / portrait / image under a mapping (math.)

= + : In anglepod's bathroom, Marie Curie and Rosa Luxemburg find a most delighting Elephant locomotive. They are so excited that they spontaneously start playing locomotive themselves, with Rosa grapping Marie's shoulders, and Marie exclaiming "choo choo" while pretending to pull a string, resembling the Elephant.

= + : "Look at that elephant (象). Do you know who it looks like (像)?" Xi Shi (xi) asks Kazimierz Luxemburg in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). "No, who?" "Your aunt (亻)."

像 character breakdown

"person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 9)

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: Rosa Luxemburg. She's quite radical, and her name starts with "r", just like "ren2". Also, 亻appears at the left-hand side of characters, and Rosa is a leftist as well.

Robinson Crusoe (r) and Rosa Luxemburg (亻) are having their favorite snacks in the encampment's kitchen: Rosa is eating a banana (丿) and Robinson is eating a dinosaur bone (丨).
elephant / CL:隻|只[zhi1] / shape / form / appearance / to imitate

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: I already used an ordinary elephant for 勹, which is fine, because 勹 appears many times and 象 only a few times. Thus to represent 象 I'll use a locomotive from 1844's Austria, which was called "KFNB Elephant".

= + + : Marie Curie sees the crane and the swine fight about a single mandarin in the anglepod's bathroom. To smooth down the differences, with a locomotive she drives a whole container of mandarins in the bathroom.

Characters with 像 as component

像 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 像

unreasonable / shocking / outrageous
Buddhist image / statue of Buddha or Bodhisattva / CL:尊[zun1], 張|张[zhang1]
likeness of a person (sketch, photo, sculpture etc)
(optics) inverted image
inverted image / reversed image (e.g. upside down)
inverted image / reversed image (e.g. upside down)
in no shape to be seen / unpresentable / beyond recognition
idol drama / drama series in which the actors are chosen for their preexisting popularity with young viewers
burden of having to maintain one's image as a pop idol

Sentences with 像

zhè
cái
xiàng
huà