向 xiàng

1. xiàng preposition towards; to
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '向' prep; Kroll 2015 '向' 1; Unihan '向')
2. xiàng noun direction
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 方位 (Guoyu '向' n 2; Unihan '向')
3. xiàng verb to face
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 对着 or 朝着 (Guoyu '向' v 1)
4. xiàng adjective previous; former; earlier
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '向' adj; Kroll 2015 '向' 2)
5. xiàng adverb formerly
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Traditional: 曏; in the sense of 从前 (Guoyu '曏' adv; Unihan '曏')
6. xiàng noun a north facing window
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '向' n 1)
7. xiàng noun a trend
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '向' n 3)
8. xiàng proper noun Xiang
   Domain: History 历史 , Subdomain: China
   Notes: The name of a historic state (Guoyu '向' n 4)
9. xiàng proper noun Xiang
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (Guoyu '向' n 5; Kroll 2015 '向' 5)
10. xiàng verb to move towards
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 临近 or 接近 (Guoyu '向' v 5; Kroll 2015 '向' 1a)
11. xiàng verb to respect; to admire; to look up to
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 崇尚 or 景仰 (Guoyu '向' v 2)
12. xiàng verb to favor; to be partial to
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 偏袒 or 偏愛 (Guoyu '向' v 3)
13. xiàng adverb always
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 从来 (Guoyu '向' adv 1)
14. xiàng adverb just now; a moment ago
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 刚才 (Guoyu '向' adv 2)
15. xiàng verb to approximate
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '向' 1b)
16. xiàng verb presuming
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '向' 3)
17. xiàng verb to attack
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '向' 4)
18. xiàng verb echo
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As a variant of 响 (Kroll 2015 '向' 5)
19. xiàng verb to make clear
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Traditional: 曏; in the sense of 表明 (Guoyu '曏' v)

Contained in

• 方向盘(方向盤) a steering wheel
• 正向 forward (direction); positive (thinking, mood, values etc)
• 向下 to face downwards; to descend
• 明知山有虎，偏向虎山行 to willfully go towards the mountain although knowing that it has tigers
• 双向(雙向) bidirectional; two-way; interactive
• 向壁虚造(向壁虛造) facing a wall, an imaginary construction; baseless fabrication
• 单方向(單方向) unidirectional; single-aspect
• 向导(嚮導) a guide ; to guide
• 迎向 to go forward to greet
• 向往(嚮往) to yearn for; to look forward to
• 全向 in all directions
• 风向标(風向標) a weather vane; a windsock
• 换向(換向) commutation (electricity)
• 航向 course; direction (a ship or plane is heading in)
• 改过向善(改過向善) to correct faults
• 向来(向來) always; all along ; afterwards ; just now
• 动向(動向) trend; tendency
• 向性 tropism
• 向量 a vector
• 归向(歸向) to turn toward
• 向左拐 to turn left
• 改恶向善(改惡向善) turn away from evil and follow virtue
• 不知去向 whereabouts unknown; gone missing
• 向前翻腾(向前翻騰) forward somersault
• 主法向量 principal normal vector (to a space curve)
• 趋向补语(趨向補語) a complement of direction; a directional complement
• 轴向(軸向) axis; axial
• 拳脚相向(拳腳相向) to square off; to exchange blows; to rain blows on sb
• 蕲向(蘄向) to pray; to implore
• 向后(向後) backward
• 转向信号(轉向信號) turn signal (auto.); turning indicator
• 性指向 sexual orientation
• 走向滑动断层(走向滑動斷層) strike-slip fault; fault line where the two sides slide horizontally past one another
• 向北地 northward
• 法向力 normal force
• 定向越野 cross-country orienteering
• 向例 custom; usual practice; convention up to now
• 向后翻腾(向後翻騰) backward somersault
• 逆向 backwards; reverse direction
• 一切向钱看(一切向錢看) to put money above everything else
• 头向前(頭向前) headlong
• 所向无敌(所向無敵) to be invincible; unrivalled
• 单位向量(單位向量) unit vector
• 前一向 lately; in the recent past
• 向慕 to adore
• 去向 the position of something; the whereabouts
• 趋向(趨向) to trend; to incline ; to curry favor
• 向量空间(向量空間) a vector space

Also contained in

向巴平措 、 指向装置 、 向量图形

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