像
xiàng HSK2

resemble

像 xiàng
resemble verb
to be like or similar to someone or something

他长得真像他的父亲。

tā zhǎng de zhēn xiàng tā de fù​qīn.

He looks just like his father.

look as if adverb
to appear or seem to be in a certain state

看这天气，像要下大雨了。

kàn zhè tiān​qì, xiàng yào xià dà​yǔ le.

Looking at the weather, it looks like it's going to pour.

such as preposition
used to introduce examples or comparisons

像北京、上海这样的大城市很多。

xiàng Běi​jīng, Shàng​hǎi zhè​yàng de dà chéng​shì hěn​duō.

There are many large cities like Beijing and Shanghai.

likeness noun
a portrait, image, statue, or outward appearance

墙上挂着一幅名人的画像。

qiáng shàng guà zhe yī fú míng​rén de huà xiàng.

A portrait of a celebrity is hanging on the wall.

image (math.) noun
the value or set of values resulting from a mathematical mapping or function

我们需要计算这个点在映射下的像。

wǒ​men xū​yào jì​suàn zhè​ge diǎn zài yìng​shè xià de xiàng.

We need to calculate the image of this point under the mapping.

Frequency
Character
Written text
294th most common 750.8 per million
Movie subtitles
116th most common 1519.7 per million appears in 99% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1497.3 per million appears in 97% of films
Written text
446.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+50CF

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)