曏
xiàng HSK2

toward

向 (曏) xiàng
towards preposition
to, towards, or in the direction of

如果你有不明白的地方，可以向老师请教。

rú​guǒ nǐ yǒu bù míng​bai de dì​fang, kě​yǐ xiàng lǎo​shī qǐng​jiào.

If there is anything you don't understand, you can ask the teacher for advice.

direction preposition
direction, orientation, or to face or turn toward

指南针坏了，他在这片林子里辨别不清向。

zhǐ​nán​zhēn huài le, tā zài zhè piàn lín​zi lǐ biàn​bié bù qīng xiàng.

The compass was broken, and he couldn't tell which way was which in these woods.

formerly preposition
shortly before or formerly

向所提到的问题，目前已经全部解决了。

xiàng suǒ tí​dào de wèn​tí, mù​qián yǐ​jīng quán​bù jiě​jué le.

The problems previously mentioned have all been resolved now.

Frequency
Character
Written text
146th most common 1431.4 per million
Movie subtitles
305th most common 525.1 per million appears in 89% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
513.3 per million appears in 81% of films
Written text
857.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Simplified
向
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+66CF

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