Character Details
| towards | Ascii: — | w176 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 向 | xiàng | tshang | 4 | 宀 (roof) + 口 (mouth) → toward | 向 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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When putting on a helmet, to get the right orientation you have to make sure the little dot on top of the helmet is directly above your head. | ||||||||||
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| - I promise you | - I want to apologize to you | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 30 - 宀 | mián | roof | roof | roof cover | 家 安 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 宀 (roof) + 口 (mouth) → toward | 口 (semantic origin) | 冂 (phonetic) | phonetic from 冂 | ||||||||