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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
(medicine) targeted drug
guide
HSK 5
to be on a positive trend; to be improving
to face / to turn towards / to incline to / geared towards / catering for / -oriented / facial feature / appearance / aspect / facet
HSK 6
intention / purpose / intent / inclination / disposition
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *向* | 向* | *向
to tend toward / to guide / variant of
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *向* | 向* | *向
variant of / direction / orientation / to face / to turn toward / to / towards / shortly before / formerly
HSK 2
reverse engineering
study hard and every day you will improve (idiom)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *向* | 向* | *向
surname Xiang
to incline to / to prefer / to be prone to
to change direction / fig. to change one's stance
HSK 5
down / downward
trend; tendency
HSK 7-9
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 put money above everything else
towards / facing (sb or sth) / (coll.) to side with / to favor
HSK 7-9
to orientate / directional / directed / orienteering
HSK 7-9
to point towards / aimed at / facing / the direction indicated
HSK 7-9
reserved (personality) / introverted / (economics etc) domestic-oriented
HSK 7-9
always (previously)
HSK 7-9
westward
to be oriented towards / orientation
HSK 7-9
that which is yearned for by the public
sunflower (Helianthus annuus)
chin-up (physical exercise)
to yearn for / to look forward to
HSK 7-9
(idiom) flourishing / thriving
HSK 7-9
orientation / direction
direction in which sb or sth has gone; whereabouts
HSK 7-9
leeward
direction / strike (i.e. angle of inclination in geology) / inclination / trend / to move towards / to head for
whereabouts unknown / gone missing
tendency / inclination / orientation
steering wheel
HSK 7-9
to charge into
harmful trend
backward
vector algebra
direction of a current / direction of flow / to flow toward
HSK 7-9
bidirectional / two-way / interactive
HSK 7-9
opposite direction / reverse
horizontal / orthogonal / perpendicular / lateral / crosswise
HSK 7-9
aptitude / disposition / inclination
southward
vector product (of vectors)
export-oriented (economic model)
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 glower at each other (idiom)
eigenvector (math.)
centripetal force / (fig.) cohering force / cohesion / team spirit
(math.) unit vector
extroverted (personality) / (economics etc) export-oriented
ambition / goal / ideal / aspiration
letter of intent (LOI) (commerce)
lit. to willfully go towards the mountain although knowing that it has tigers (idiom) / fig. to take a risk despite knowing the dangers
to target sb or sth (for attack, criticism etc)
wind direction / the way the wind is blowing / fig. trends (esp. unpredictable ones) / how things are developing / course of events
(math.) vector
sexual orientation
to lose one's bearings / utterly confused
to stride toward (success) / to march toward / to take a step toward
(elec.) unidirectional current / DC / also written 直流
axis / axial
(of a train, boat, plane etc) to head in the direction of
southwestward
Xiangyang district of Kiamusze or Jiamusi city 佳木斯, Heilongjiang
unidirectional / single-aspect
vehicle turn indicator light
connection-oriented
forward (direction) / positive (thinking, mood, values etc)
backwards / reverse direction
sense of direction
to turn left
unidirectional
to be invincible / unrivalled
top-down
orienteering
(idiom) to weep in solitude
longitudinal / vertical
sunflower
bottom-up
whither
(math.) vector space; linear space
tangent vector
turn away from evil and follow virtue
turn signal (auto.) / turning indicator
to lead to / to draw to / to steer towards
forward direction / (math.) positive direction
in all directions
eastwards
to turn / to adjust one's direction / to lose one's bearings

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