像xiàng

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Simplified form (簡體). 像 (xiàng, "to resemble, like, image") remains unchanged from its traditional counterpart, combining the person radical 亻with 象, the ancient pictograph of an elephant whose remarkable form came to symbolize the very idea of likeness and resemblance. This character appears in 想象 (imagine), 好像 (seem/appear), and 肖像 (portrait), always carrying its core sense of capturing or depicting form.

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像 (xiàng). A compound of the person radical 亻 and the phonetic element 象 (elephant); the original meaning is likeness, image, or statue—a human figure that resembles or represents someone. The character draws on 象 both for its sound and for its extended meaning of "to resemble," with the person radical specifying a human likeness or portrait.

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