象
xiàng HSK3

elephant

象 xiàng
appearance noun
appearance; shape; form; physical state or image
elephant noun
elephant; large mammal of the order Proboscidea with a long trunk and tusks
to resemble verbpreposition
to be like; to resemble; to look as if

但愿我能象鸟一样飞。

dàn​yuàn wǒ néng xiàng niǎo yī​yàng fēi.

I wish I could fly like a bird.

to imitate affixverb
(bound form) to imitate; to follow the pattern of; to mimic
surname
a Chinese surname
Xiang Zhuan
one of the "Ten Wings" (commentaries) on the Classic of Changes (Yi Jing)
laws
(archaic) laws; statutes; decrees
ritual dance
(archaic) a ritual dance depicting martial movements with spears and shields

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Frequency
Character
Written text
300th most common 741.3 per million
Movie subtitles
410th most common 363.1 per million appears in 77% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
149.4 per million appears in 22% of films
Written text
89.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+8C61

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