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HSK
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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嚮* | 嚮* | *嚮
to tend toward / to guide / variant of
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *曏* | 曏* | *曏
variant of / direction / orientation / to face / to turn toward / to / towards / shortly before / formerly
HSK 2
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
to change direction / fig. to change one's stance
HSK 5
guide
HSK 5
upward / up / to advance / to try to improve oneself / to make progress
HSK 5
trend / tendency / orientation
HSK 6
to face / to turn towards / to incline to / geared towards / catering for / -oriented / facial feature / appearance / aspect / facet
HSK 6
steering wheel
HSK 7-9
trend; tendency
HSK 7-9
bidirectional / two-way / interactive
HSK 7-9
to be oriented towards / orientation
HSK 7-9
to yearn for / to look forward to
HSK 7-9
reserved (personality) / introverted / (economics etc) domestic-oriented
HSK 7-9
horizontal / orthogonal / perpendicular / lateral / crosswise
HSK 7-9
partial towards sth / to prefer / to incline / erroneous tendencies (Leftist or Revisionist deviation)
HSK 7-9
to point towards / aimed at / facing / the direction indicated
HSK 7-9
direction in which sb or sth has gone; whereabouts
HSK 7-9
always (previously)
HSK 7-9
intention / purpose / intent / inclination / disposition
HSK 7-9
(idiom) flourishing / thriving
HSK 7-9
towards / facing (sb or sth) / (coll.) to side with / to favor
HSK 7-9
direction of a current / direction of flow / to flow toward
HSK 7-9
to orientate / directional / directed / orienteering
HSK 7-9
binormal vector (to a space curve)
Xiangjiaba Dam, Yunnan, site of a hydropower station
facing one another; face-to-face
object oriented language
sunflower
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *向* | 向* | *向
surname Xiang
sunflower (Helianthus annuus)
that which is yearned for by the public
direction of cleavage (e.g. of slate)
down / downward
vector algebra
opposite direction / reverse
to get lost / to lose one's way
to adore
to stride toward (success) / to march toward / to take a step toward
directed breeding
to lead to
ambition / goal / ideal / aspiration
forward (direction) / positive (thinking, mood, values etc)
(math.) vector
confused and disoriented
orientation / direction
toward / to face / to open onto / to turn towards / orientation / exposure / Qibla (Islam)
to put money above everything else
extroverted (personality) / (economics etc) export-oriented
negative (response, emotion etc)
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
pointing device (computing)
aptitude / disposition / inclination
direction; trend / to incline
longitudinal / vertical
southward
eastwards
centripetal force / (fig.) cohering force / cohesion / team spirit
vane / propellor blade / weather vane / windsock
backwards / reverse direction
to turn toward
vector product (of vectors)
to warm oneself facing the fire
tendency / inclination / orientation
radial (direction)
chin-up (physical exercise)
turn away from evil and follow virtue
to be invincible / unrivalled
letter of intent (LOI) (commerce)
northward / facing north
compass
to redirect
to support or oppose
(of a train, boat, plane etc) to head in the direction of
to lose one's bearings / utterly confused
custom / usual practice / convention up to now
facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
(idiom) to weep in solitude
normal force (physics)
tropism
to lead to / to draw to / to steer towards
towards evening
cross-country orienteering
unidirectional / single-aspect
syncline (geology)
top-down
export-oriented (economic model)
outward
to charge into
normal vector
(math.) vector space; linear space
sense of direction
eigenvector (math.)
vehicle turn indicator light
in all directions

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