相 xiàng xiāng

1. xiāng adverb each other / one another / mutually
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 互相, for example, in the idiom 自相矛盾 'self-contradictory' (CCI '自相矛盾'; CCD 1 '相' 1; FE '相' 1; GHDC 1 '相' 1; Guoyu '相' xiāng adv 1; Kroll 2015 '相' xiāng 1, p. 497); 相 may be used in this sense in Literary Chinese (Pulleyblank 1995, p. 136). For example, 獸相食，且人惡之。'Beasts devour one another, and men hate them for doing so.' (Mengzi: 1.4/2/21, translation by Legge)
2. xiàng verb to observe / to assess
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 观察 (CCD 2 '相'; GHDC 2 '相' 1; Guoyu '相' xiàng v 1; Kroll 2015 '相' xiàng 3, p. 497)
3. xiàng noun appearance / portrait / picture
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (GHDC 2 '相' 2; Guoyu '相' xiàng n 1)
4. xiàng noun lakṣaṇa / countenance / personage / quality / character / disposition
   Domain: Buddhism 佛教
   Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: lakṣaṇa, Pāli: lakkhaṇa, Japanese: sō (BCSD '相'; BL 'lakṣaṇa'; GHDC 2 '相' 9; Kroll 2015 '相' xiàng 4, p. 497)
5. xiàng verb to aid / to help
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 辅助 (GHDC 2 '相' 3; Guoyu '相' xiàng v 3; Kroll 2015 '相' xiàng 1, p. 497)
6. xiāng noun a chancellor / a prime minister / a high minister
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 宰相 or 丞相 (GHDC 2 '相' 5; Guoyu '相' xiàng n 2; Kroll 2015 '相' xiàng 1, p. 497; Wu and Tee 2015, loc. 1673)
7. xiàng noun nimitta / a sign / a mark / appearance
   Domain: Buddhism 佛教
   Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: nimitta, Japanese: sō (BCSD '相'; BL 'nimitta'; Kroll 2015 '相' xiàng 4a, p. 497)
8. xiàng noun a perception / cognition / conceptualization / a notion
   Domain: Buddhism 佛教
   Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: saṃjñā, Pāli: saññā (BCSD '相')
9. xiāng auxiliary verb alternately / in turn
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '相' xiāng auxiliary verb; Kroll 2015 '相' xiāng 2, p. 497)
10. xiāng proper noun Xiang
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names 名字 , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (CCD 1 '相' 3; GHDC 1 '相' 4; Guoyu '相' xiāng n 1)
11. xiāng noun form substance
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 实质; FGS translation standard: Form (FE '相' 2; Faxiang; GHDC 1 '相' 3)
12. xiāng verb to express
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (GHDC 1 '相' 2)
13. xiàng verb to choose
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 选择 (GHDC 2 '相' 6; Guoyu '相' xiàng v 5)
14. xiāng proper noun Xiang
    Domain: History 历史 , Concept: Ancient City 古城
    Notes: (GHDC 2 '相' 8)
15. xiāng noun an ancient musical instrument
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (GHDC 2 '相' 10; Guoyu '相' xiàng n 4)
16. xiāng noun the seventh lunar month
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 相月 (GHDC 2 '相' 11)
17. xiāng verb to compare
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 比较 (Guoyu '相' xiāng adv 2)
18. xiàng verb to divine
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 占视 (Guoyu '相' xiàng v 2)
19. xiàng verb to administer
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 治理 (Guoyu '相' xiàng v 4)
20. xiàng noun helper for a blind person
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '相' xiàng n 3)
21. xiāng noun rhythm [music]
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '相' xiāng 3, p. 497)
22. xiāng noun the upper frets of a pipa
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '相' xiāng 3a, p. 497)
23. xiāng noun coralwood
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In 相思豆, see 海红豆 (Kroll 2015 '相' xiāng 4, p. 497; Wikipedia '海红豆')
24. xiàng noun ministry
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '相' xiàng 1a, p. 497)
25. xiàng verb to supplement / to enhance
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '相' xiàng 2, p. 497)

Contained in

• 相应(相應) relevant / corresponding ; concomitant ; to respond / to act in response ; cheap / inexpensive ; Sō-ō
• 相关(相關) interrelated
• 相当(相當) similar to ; appropriate / suitable ; equivalent to / equal to ; considerably / to a certain extent
• 相比 to be compared to
• 相同 identical / same
• 相信 to believe ; to trust
• 相互 each other / mutual
• 互相 each other / mutually
• 相连(相連) to link / to join / link / to connect
• 不相上下 equally matched / about the same
• 相对(相對) face-to-face ; to match
• 代代相传(代代相傳) passed on from generation to generation / to hand down
• 相聚 to meet together / to assemble
• 相处(相處) to get along with each other
• 息息相关(息息相關) closely bound up / intimately related ; closely related
• 相称(相稱) to call each other ; to match / to suit
• 相册(相冊) photo album
• 凶相(兇相) ferocious appearance
• 照相 to take a photograph ; a photograph
• 照相机(照相機) camera
• 相反 to be in conflict / to contradict ; to turn over
• 相似 similar
• 出洋相 to make an exhibition of oneself ; to joke
• 相面 face reading / fortune telling based on the subject's face
• 相依为命(相依為命) to depend on one another for survival
• 照相馆(照相館) photography studio
• 相声(相聲) comic dialog / sketch / cross talk
• 自相矛盾 to contradict oneself / self-contradictory
• 萍水相逢 strangers coming together by chance
• 首相 prime minister
• 相差 to differ
• 相等 to be equal
• 相符 to conform to
• 相继(相繼) one after another
• 相交 to intersect ; to be friends
• 相识(相識) to be aquainted
• 相通 identical
• 真相 the truth about something / the actual facts
• 相承 to complement one another ; to inherit ; to carry on in succession
• 相机(相機) a camera
• 相辅相成(相輔相成) to help each other / to complement one another
• 宰相 chancellor / prime minister
• 相貌 appearance / features
• 相隔 to be separated by
• 扮相 the appearance of an actor or actress in costume or makeup
• 相片 a photo
• 口耳相传(口耳相傳) to teach orally

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