Mnemonic comic for 相

Translation

xiàng = xi + ang4: appearance / portrait / picture / government minister / (physics) phase / (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features) / to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc)

Mnemonic

Mnemonic symbol: I take “eye” and “tree” as resembling an ent, an alive tree. Xi Shi (xi) portrays (相) an ent (相) in the anglepod’s bathroom (ang4). Unfortunately she’s really bad at painting, and her portrait resembles more a Christmas tree (木). The Eye of Providence (目) enters and, just from the shape of the Christmas Tree, instantly recognizes its own portrait (相).

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All translations for 相

相

xiāng = xi + ang1

each other / one another / mutually / fret on the neck of a pipa 琵琶[pi2 pa5] (a fret on the soundboard is called a 品[pin3])

相

xiàng = xi + ang4

appearance / portrait / picture / government minister / (physics) phase / (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features) / to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc)

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相 character breakdown

相
- 木
  - 八
    - 丿
    - ㇏
  - 十
    - 一
    - 丨
- 目
  - 囗
  - 二
    - 一

Component Translations

木

mù = mu + Ø4

(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden

目

mù = mu + Ø4

eye / (literary) to look; to regard / eye (of a net); mesh / mesh size; grit size (abbr. for 目數|目数[mu4 shu4]) / item; section / list; catalogue / (taxonomy) order / name; title

Characters with 相 as component

想箱霜厢湘廂缃葙緗

想

xiǎng = xi + ang3

to think / to believe / to suppose / to wish / to want / to miss (feel wistful about the absence of sb or sth)

想

xiǎng = xi + ang3

to think (about) / to think of; to devise / to think (that); to believe (that) / to desire; to want (to) / to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)

箱

xiāng = xi + ang1

box / trunk / chest

Words with 相

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相

xiāng

信

xìn

to be convinced (that sth is true) / to believe / to accept sth as true

相

xiāng

信

xìn

to be convinced (that sth is true); to believe; to accept sth as true

真

zhēn

相

xiàng

the truth about sth / the actual facts

Sentences with 相

于

yú

你

nǐ

们

men

这

zhè

花

huā

果

guǒ

山

shān

可

kě

是

shì

大

dà

不

bù

相

xiāng

同

tóng

啊

It's completely different from your Mountain of Flowers and Fruit.

Prompt snippets

The Ent is a towering, bipedal humanoid Ent with a torso made of thick, gnarled English Oak bark. His face is deeply recessed into the trunk, featuring a wide, flat nose formed by a horizontal burl and deep-set eyes that glow with a soft amber light. He has a long, braided beard made of hanging grey Spanish moss and thick lichen. His fingers are elongated, tapering willow branches with small, budding emerald-green leaves at the tips. He wears no clothing, but his shoulders are overgrown with a dense shelf of bright green forest moss and small white fungal caps.