相
Meanings · soeng1
- (noun) 1. photo; (of countenance)
- Look; 2.appearance; (noun) 1. Premier; 2. Prime minister;
Meanings · soeng1
- each other
- one another
- mutually
- toward
Meanings · soeng3
- appearance
- looks
- posture
- appraise
- assess
- examine
- prime minister
- premier
Meanings · soeng3
- photo
- picture
- image
Meanings · soeng2
- photo
- picture
- image
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 相 Xiāng CC-CEDICT · Mandarinsurname Xiang
- 相 xiāng CC-CEDICT · Mandarineach other; one another; mutually; fret on the neck of a pipa 琵琶 pí pa (a fret on the soundboard is called a 品 pǐn)
- 相 xiàng CC-CEDICT · Mandarinappearance; portrait; picture; government minister; (physics) phase; (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features); to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc)
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: xiang1. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 29 senses · 3 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
soeng1 · soeng2 · soeng3
Cantonese word readings for 相. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- to see for oneself; to evaluate by seeing for oneself
- mutually; reciprocally; towards each other; one another
- together; jointly
- successively; one after another
- used before a verb to indicate the action is performed by one person towards another
- a surname
character
- to look at; to examine the appearance and judge; to observe
- looks; appearance; features
- posture; bearing
- demeanour; manners
- photo; picture; photograph (Classifier: 張／张 m c; 幅 c)
- phase; exterior; stage; period
- (physics) phase
- (geology) facies
- to physiognomise; to practise physiognomy; to tell fortune by reading the subject's facial features
- physiognomy; practice of physiognomy
- to choose; to pick
- to assist; to help; to oversee
- (Chinese mythology) Xiang of Xia (fifth king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty)
- (chiefly historical or in compounds) Chancellor of State; minister
- (xiangqi) minister: 🩢 (on the red side)
- (historical) master of ceremonies
- (historical) attendant
- to administer; to govern
- to teach; to instruct
- a person who guides or leads a blind person
- (Southern Min) to be born in the year of (one of the twelve animals)
- (Teochew, Haifeng Min) to believe
- a surname
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