翔 (xiáng): to soar, to glide, (slang) shit
翔 (xiáng) is a Chinese character meaning “to soar.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 羊 (phonetic) and 羽 (semantic). It ranks #2136 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 翔 wings. Its radical form 羽 (feather) appears in many related characters such as 翻 (fān, to turn over), 羽 (yǔ, feather), 耀 (yào, brilliant).
Definitions
- to soar
- to glide
- (slang) shit
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 飞翔verb | fēi xiáng | to circle in the air |
| 滑翔verb | huá xiáng | to glide |
| 翱翔verb | áo xiáng | to soar |
| 滑翔机noun | huá xiáng jī | glider |
| 滑翔伞noun | huá xiáng sǎn | paraglider (equipment) |
| 翔实adjective | xiáng shí | complete and accurate |
| 刘翔 | liú xiáng | Liu Xiang (1983-), Chinese gold-medal hurdler of the 2004 Olympic Games |
| 翔安区 | xiáng ān qū | Xiang'an, a district of Xiamen City 廈門市|厦门市, Fujian |
| 临翔区 | lín xiáng qū | Linxiang, a district of Lincang City 臨滄市|临沧市, Yunnan |
| 悬挂式滑翔机 | xuán guà shì huá xiáng jī | hang-glider |
| 翔回 | xiáng huí | to circle (in the sky) |
| 高翔verb | gāo xiáng | Gao Xiang (1688-1753), Qing dynasty painter |
| 翔安proper-noun | xiáng ān | see 翔安區|翔安区 |
| 贺军翔 | hè jūn xiáng | Mike He (1983-), Taiwanese actor |
| 悬挂式滑翔 | xuán guà shì huá xiáng | hang-gliding |
翔 appears in 23 compound words: 22 as the first character, 43 as the last, and 35 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 翔 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
这个翔字在古汉语中有不同的含义。
zhè gě xiáng zì zài gǔ hàn yǔ zhōng yǒu bù tóng de hán yì .
The character xiang had different meanings in ancient Chinese.
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dà gǔ xiáng píng dài yán zhuàn pò yì měi yuán ! chāo chē lǎo hǔ wǔ zī dēng dǐng dǎ qiú . . .
Shohei Ohtani Earns Over $100 Million in Endorsement Deals! Overtakes Tiger Woods to Take the Top Spot...
MLB》洋基大物承认模仿大谷翔平! 狂炸超远怪力轰(影音)
M L B yáng jī dà wù chéng rèn mó fǎng dà gǔ xiáng píng ! kuáng zhà chāo yuǎn guài lì hōng ( yǐng yīn )
MLB" Yankees big man admits to imitating Shohei Ohtani! Bombing Super Far Monster Bombardment (Video)
经典赛/山川穗高分享大谷翔平怪力 张奕期待WBC对决
jīng diǎn sài shān chuān 穗 gāo fēn xiǎng dà gǔ xiáng píng guài lì zhāng 奕 qī dài W B C duì jué
Classic/Hotaka Yamakawa shares Shohei Ohtani's strange power Zhang Yi is looking forward to the WBC showdown
独/富台指喷3% 周经翔曝台股红盘日走势
dú fù tái zhǐ pēn 3 zhōu jīng xiáng pù tái gǔ hóng pán rì zǒu shì
Unique/rich Taiwan index sprayed 3% Zhou Jingxiang exposed the daily trend of Taiwan stocks in the red market
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. . . jūn huǒ lì quán kāi ! zuǒ téng huī míng měng dǎ shǎng guàn 5 dǎ diǎn , sēn xià xiáng tài kāi hōng 4 dǎ diǎn rì běn duì shǒu chǎng shí zhàn tòng zǎi ruǎn yín
... The military firepower is in full swing! Teruaki Sato hit 5 RBIs, Shota Morishita hit 4 RBIs The Japanese team's first actual game slaughtered SoftBank
你曾经梦想在天空飞翔吗？
Nǐ céngjīng mèngxiǎng zài tiānkōng fēixiáng ma?
Do you ever dream about flying through the sky?
伊卡洛斯乘着自制的翅膀飞翔。
Yīkǎluòsī chéng zhe zìzhì de chìbǎng fēixiáng.
Icarus flew on crafted wings.
不像狗, 这只鹤从来没有梦想过飞翔。
Bù xiàng gǒu, zhè zhī hè cóngláiméiyǒu mèngxiǎng guo fēixiáng.
The crane, unlike the dog, has never dreamed of flying.
人们普遍认为悬挂式滑翔运动是危险的。
Rénmen pǔbiàn rènwéi xuánguàshìhuáxiáng yùndòng shì wēixiǎn de.
There is a tendency for people to think that hang gliding is dangerous.
Character Family
羽 Radical Family — Characters sharing the feather radical
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