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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *向* | 向* | *向
towards / to face / to turn towards / direction / to support / to side with / shortly before / formerly / always / all along / (suffix) suitable for ... / oriented to ...
HSK 2
direction; orientation / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
upward / up / to advance / to try to improve oneself / to make progress
HSK 5
a period of time in the recent past / (indicating a period of time up to the present) all along; the whole time
HSK 5
forward / onward
HSK 5
trend / tendency / orientation
HSK 6
to change direction / fig. to change one's stance
HSK 5
intention / purpose / intent / inclination / disposition
HSK 7-9
reverse engineering
always (previously)
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *向* | 向* | *向
surname Xiang
to yearn for / to look forward to
HSK 7-9
trend; tendency
HSK 7-9
towards / facing (sb or sth) / (coll.) to side with / to favor
HSK 7-9
guide
HSK 5
down / downward
partial towards sth / to prefer / to incline / erroneous tendencies (Leftist or Revisionist deviation)
HSK 7-9
toward / to face / to open onto / to turn towards / orientation / exposure / Qibla (Islam)
to orientate / directional / directed / orienteering
HSK 7-9
wind direction / the way the wind is blowing / fig. trends (esp. unpredictable ones) / how things are developing / course of events
Xiangyang district of Kiamusze or Jiamusi city 佳木斯, Heilongjiang / Xiangyang district of Hegang city 鶴崗|鹤岗, Heilongjiang
facing the sun / exposed to the sun
to point towards / aimed at / facing / the direction indicated
HSK 7-9
to face / to turn towards / to incline to / geared towards / catering for / -oriented / facial feature / appearance / aspect / facet
HSK 6
to be oriented towards / orientation
HSK 7-9
to incline to / to prefer / to be prone to
westward
that which is yearned for by the public
sunflower (Helianthus annuus)
harmful trend
orientation / direction
steering wheel
HSK 7-9
direction in which sb or sth has gone; whereabouts
HSK 7-9
to put money above everything else
longitudinal / vertical
reserved (personality) / introverted / (economics etc) domestic-oriented
HSK 7-9
direction / strike (i.e. angle of inclination in geology) / inclination / trend / to move towards / to head for
whereabouts unknown / gone missing
direction of a current / direction of flow / to flow toward
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嚮* | 嚮* | *嚮
to tend toward / to guide / variant of
HSK 2
opposite direction / reverse
(math.) vector space; linear space
aptitude / disposition / inclination
southward
horizontal / orthogonal / perpendicular / lateral / crosswise
HSK 7-9
to get lost / to lose one's way
export-oriented (economic model)
to glower at each other (idiom)
centripetal force / (fig.) cohering force / cohesion / team spirit
study hard and every day you will improve (idiom)
unidirectional
extroverted (personality) / (economics etc) export-oriented
ambition / goal / ideal / aspiration
lit. to willfully go towards the mountain although knowing that it has tigers (idiom) / fig. to take a risk despite knowing the dangers
eigenvector (math.) / also written 特徵向量|特征向量
tendency / inclination / orientation
whither
(math.) vector
sexual orientation
bidirectional / two-way / interactive
HSK 7-9
turn away from evil and follow virtue
to be invincible / unrivalled
southwestward
forward (direction) / positive (thinking, mood, values etc)
backwards / reverse direction
sense of direction
to turn left
top-down
orienteering
(of a train, boat, plane etc) to head in the direction of
(idiom) to weep in solitude
bottom-up
commutation (electricity)
tangent vector
chin-up (physical exercise)
Xiangjiaba Dam, Yunnan, site of a hydropower station
to lead to / to draw to / to steer towards
forward direction / (math.) positive direction
turn signal (auto.) / turning indicator
in all directions
to turn toward
to target sb or sth (for attack, criticism etc)
vector product (of vectors)
to turn / to adjust one's direction / to lose one's bearings
to warm oneself facing the fire
radial (direction)
(idiom) to sweep everything before one; to be invincible
vehicle turn indicator light
(lit.) to face the corner / (fig.) to miss out on sth
to lose one's bearings / utterly confused
missing / lost
towards evening
vane / propellor blade / weather vane / windsock
(idiom) flourishing / thriving
HSK 7-9
a woman is born to leave her family (idiom) / a woman's heart is with her husband
sexual orientation
curvature vector
tangent direction
eastwards
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *曏* | 曏* | *曏
variant of / direction / orientation / to face / to turn toward / to / towards / shortly before / formerly
HSK 2

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