向

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 Derived terms 1.2.2 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Hanzi 5.2.1 Compounds 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

Stroke order

[edit] Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 宀 (“‘house’”) + 口 (“‘window’”)

[edit] Han character

向 (radical 30 口+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹月口 (HBR), four-corner 2722₀, composition ⿱丿冋)

1. toward, direction, trend

[edit] Derived terms

• 尙, 珦, 餉

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 176, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3301
• Dae Jaweon: page 393, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 579, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5411

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

向 (traditional 曏, Yale heung3)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

向 (grade 3 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: コウ (kō), キョウ (kyō), ショウ (shō)
• Kun: むく (muku), むかう (mukau), さきに (sakini)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

向 (hangeul 향, 상, revised hyang, sang, McCune-Reischauer hyang, sang)

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[edit] Pronunciation

•  audio^{help, file}

[edit] Hanzi

向 (traditional 曏, pinyin chà (cha4), xiàng (xiang4), zhā (zha1), Wade-Giles ch'a⁴, hsiang⁴, cha¹)

1. Direction.

[edit] Compounds

• 向北
• 向前
• 向東
• 向下
• 向西
• 向上望
• 向导
• 向日葵
• 向來/向来
• 方向

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

向 (hướng)