肖
像

Portrait (painting, photo etc) in Chinese: 肖像 (xiào xiàng)

xiào xiàng

portrait (painting, photo etc)

HSK 3.0 Levels 7-91 example sentence

Definitions

  1. 1portrait (painting, photo etc)
  2. 2(in a general sense) representation of a person
  3. 3likeness

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肖
像

Zhuyin

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ㄒㄧㄠˋ

xiào

ㄒ/ xㄧ/ iㄠ/ aoˋ/ fourth tone

ㄒㄧㄤˋ

xiàng

ㄒ/ xㄧ/ iㄤ/ angˋ/ fourth tone

Example sentences

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  • 墙上挂着一幅老人的肖像。

    qiáng shàng guà zhe yì fú lǎo rén de xiào xiàng。

    A portrait of an old man hangs on the wall.

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Related words

像

xiàng

to resemble

好像

hǎo xiàng

as if

偶像

ǒu xiàng

idol

摄像

shè xiàng

to videotape

录像

lù xiàng

to videotape

音像

yīn xiàng

audio and video

图像

tú xiàng

image

像样

xiàng yàng

presentable

影像

yǐng xiàng

image

摄像机

shè xiàng jī

video camera

不像话

bù xiàng huà

unreasonable

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