"向" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 xiàng variant of 向[xiang4] / direction / orientation / to face / to turn toward / to / towards / shortly before / formerly
Results beginning with 向
 xiàng shàng upward / up / to advance / to try to improve oneself / to make progress
 xiàng qián forward / onward
 xiàng wǎng to yearn for / to look forward to
 xiàng xià down / downward
 xiàng lái always (previously)
 xiàng wài outward
 xiàng hòu backward
 xiàng dǎo guide
 xiàng běi northward / facing north
 xiàng nán southward
 xiàng zuǒ facing left / leftwards / to the left
 xiàng dōng eastwards
 xiàng yòu facing right / rightwards / to the right
西 xiàng xī westward
 xiàng yáng facing the sun / exposed to the sun
 xiàng liàng vector (math.)
 xiàng bèi to support or oppose
 xiàng xié syncline (geology)
 xiàng yú lit. to face the corner (idiom) / fig. to miss out on sth
 xiàng huǒ to warm oneself facing the fire
 xiàng lì custom / usual practice / convention up to now
 xiàng mù to adore
 xiàng mù towards evening
 xiàng pán compass
 xiàng xìng tropism
 xiàng zhe towards / facing (sb or sth) / (coll.) to side with / to favor
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 xiàng rì kuí sunflower (Helianthus annuus)
 xiàng xīn lì centripetal force / (fig.) cohering force / cohesion / team spirit
西 xiàng xī nán southwestward
 xiàng yáng huā sunflower
  windward
  landward / landward of
  seaward / seaward of
  cephalotropic
 xiàng běi dì northward
 xiàng dì xìng gravitropism
 xiàng hé chù whither
 Xiàng jiā bà Xiangjiaba Dam, Yunnan, site of a hydropower station
 xiàng liàng jī vector product (of vectors)
 xiàng shàng dì up / upward / upwards
 Xiàng yáng qū Xiangyang district of Kiamusze or Jiamusi city 佳木斯[Jia1 mu4 si1], Heilongjiang
 xiàng yòu guǎi to turn right
 xiàng zuǒ guǎi to turn left
 xiàng bì xū gòu facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom) / baseless fabrication
 xiàng bì xū zào facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom) / baseless fabrication
  phototropic bacteria
  vector format
 Xiàng bā píng cuò Qiangba Puncog (1947-), chairman of the government of Tibet (i.e. governor) 2003-2010
 xiàng hòu fān téng backward somersault
 xiàng liàng dài shù vector algebra
 xiàng liàng kōng jiān vector space / linear space
 xiàng liàng tú xíng vector graphics (computer)
 xiàng qián fān téng forward somersault
 xiàng shàng gǎi xù upward reclassification
 xiàng xià gǎi xù downward reclassification
  open water dumping
使 xiàng dài shǐ tí wèn Ask an Ambassador
 Xiàng jiā bà shuǐ diàn zhàn Xiangjiaba hydroelectric power plant of Three Gorges Dam
  submarine tailings disposal
 xiàng hǎi qīng xié fǎn shè miàn seaward-dipping reflector
 xiàng tóng gōng xiàn xiàng liàng hóng pái Red Card to Child Labour
  food-for-school programme
  statement to the press (of the SC president)
  seaward-dipping reflector sequence / sequence of seaward-dipping reflectors
  Programme of Transition to Civil Rule
 xiàng fù rǔ lǐng xiù bān jiǎng yí shì Award Ceremony for women leaders
  Donors Conference for Mozambique
  Special Programme of Assistance for Africa
  Arab Fund for Providing Loans to Africa
  International Seminar on Loans to South Africa
  Trust Fund for Public Awareness on Disarmament Issues
  Coordinator of Assistance to the Least Developed Countries
  Coordinating Conference on Assistance to the Newly Independent States
  Special Project of Assistance to the Angolan Elections
屿  Programme of Assistance to Small Island Developing Countries
  Trust Fund for Emergency Assistance to Mozambique
  Trust Fund for Technical Assistance to Electoral Processes
 xiàng yī lā kè yùn sòng huò wù tòng zhī shū huò qǐng qiú shū Notification or Request to Ship Goods to Iraq
  United Nations Coordination Meeting for Humanitarian Assistance for Somalia / Coordination Meeting for Humanitarian Assistance for Somalia
  Organizational and Cooperative Support to Grass-roots Initiatives
  Interstate Oil and Gas Transmission to Europe
  Humanitarian Economic Assistance Programme to Afghanistan
  Special Humanitarian Assistance Programme for Somalia
  Fund for Technical Assistance to African and Arab Countries
  Emergency Trust Fund for Humanitarian Assistance for Iraq
  Consolidated Appeal for Emergency Humanitarian Assistance for Afghanistan
  World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination
  Trust Fund to Provide Experts to the UNEP Ozone Secretariat
Approximate Results for 向
 fāng xiàng direction / orientation / path to follow / CL:個|个[ge4]
 zǒu xiàng direction / strike (i.e. angle of inclination in geology) / inclination / trend / to move towards / to head for
 miàn xiàng to face / to turn towards / to incline to / geared towards / catering for / -oriented / facial feature / appearance / aspect / facet
 yī xiàng always (previously) / a period of time in the recent past
 zhuàn xiàng to get lost / to lose one's way
 zhuǎn xiàng to change direction / fig. to change one's stance
 qīng xiàng trend / tendency / orientation
 zhǐ xiàng to point towards / aimed at / facing / the direction indicated
 dǎo xiàng to be oriented towards / orientation
 yì xiàng intention / purpose / intent / inclination / disposition
 shuāng xiàng bidirectional / two-way / interactive
 héng xiàng horizontal / orthogonal / perpendicular / lateral / crosswise
 dìng xiàng to orientate / directional / directed / orienteering
 cháo xiàng toward / to face / to open onto / to turn towards / orientation / exposure / Qibla (Islam)
 dòng xiàng trend / tendency
 nèi xiàng reserved (personality) / introverted / (economics etc) domestic-oriented
 chōng xiàng to charge into
 qù xiàng the position of sth / whereabouts
 qǔ xiàng orientation / direction
 qū xiàng direction / trend / to incline
 tōng xiàng to lead to
 liú xiàng direction of a current / direction of flow / to flow toward
 mài xiàng to stride toward (success) / to march toward / to take a step toward
 zhèng xiàng forward (direction) / positive (thinking, mood, values etc)
 zòng xiàng longitudinal / vertical
 dān xiàng unidirectional
 fǎn xiàng opposite direction / reverse
 piān xiàng partial towards sth / to prefer / to incline / erroneous tendencies (Leftist or Revisionist deviation)
 nì xiàng backwards / reverse direction
 wài xiàng extroverted (personality) / (economics etc) export-oriented
 fēng xiàng wind direction / the way the wind is blowing / fig. trends (esp. unpredictable ones) / how things are developing / course of events
 zhì xiàng ambition / goal / ideal / aspiration
 yǐn xiàng to lead to / to draw to / to steer towards
 xiāng xiàng facing one another / face-to-face
 zhóu xiàng axis / axial
 háng xiàng course / direction (a ship or plane is heading in)
 jìng xiàng radial (direction)
 quán xiàng in all directions
 xìng xiàng aptitude / disposition / inclination
 Liú Xiàng Liu Xiang (77-6 BC), Han Dynasty scholar and author
 guī xiàng to turn toward
 huàn xiàng commutation (electricity)
 diào xiàng to turn / to adjust one's direction / to lose one's bearings
 fù xiàng negative (response, emotion etc)
 jìng xiàng radial
 lù xiàng road direction / (fig.) direction / path
 qiē xiàng tangent direction
 shǐ xiàng (of a train, boat, plane etc) to head in the direction of
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FATS  outward Foreign Affiliates Statistics outward FATS
 fāng xiàng pán steering wheel
 qīng xiàng yú to incline to / to prefer / to be prone to
 fēng xiàng biāo vane / propellor blade / weather vane / windsock
 wài xiàng xíng export-oriented (economic model)
 chóng dìng xiàng to redirect
 yì xiàng shū letter of intent (LOI) (commerce)
 qīng xiàng xìng tendency / inclination / orientation
 fāng xiàng xìng directionality (molecular biology)
 fāng xiàng gǎn sense of direction
 xìng qǔ xiàng sexual orientation
 zhuǎn xiàng dēng vehicle turn indicator light
 wàn xiàng jié universal joint system
  lateral route / transversal route
  wind vector
线  line of constant bearing / loxodrome
  deviating force / Coriolis force
 chéng rén xiàng suitable for adults
 dān fāng xiàng unidirectional / single-aspect
 dǎo xiàng dài guide tape
 dìng xiàng léi directional mine
 fǎ xiàng lì normal force (physics)
 fǎ xiàng liàng normal vector
 qián yī xiàng lately / in the recent past
 qiē xiàng lì tangential force
 qiē xiàng liàng tangent vector
 rì xiàng jiāo Rixiang
使 shǐ zhuǎn xiàng to divert
 tóu xiàng qián headlong
 xìng zhǐ xiàng sexual orientation
 zhèng fāng xiàng orientation
 zhèng xiàng lì normal force (physics)
 zhuǎn xiàng pán steering wheel
 yūn tóu zhuàn xiàng confused and disoriented
 suǒ xiàng pī mǐ to sweep everything before one / to be invincible (idiom)
 xīn xīn xiàng róng (idiom) flourishing / thriving
 suǒ xiàng wú dí to be invincible / unrivalled
 rén xīn suǒ xiàng that which is yearned for by the public
 bù zhī qù xiàng whereabouts unknown / gone missing
 dìng xiàng péi yù directed breeding
 gǎi è xiàng shàn turn away from evil and follow virtue
  lateral move
  horizontal note
  directional drilling
  vertical proliferation
  vertical intervention
  back-scattering
  horizontal engineer / road engineer
  meridional transfer
  vergence
  abeam replenishment
  two-way traveltime / two-way transit time / two-way time
  axial mining
  axial mining
  horizontal linkage
  horizontal drilling
  call deflection
  acoustic backscatter / backscatter
  reverse veto
  guidance gyroscope
  religious preference
  gradient direction
  grid north
  lateral delimitation
  frontal delimitation
  vertical fund
  reverse discrimination
  upward mobility
  upward mobility
  vertical audit
线  omnidirectional antenna
  horizontal report
  direction of attack
  one-way time
 běn zhēng xiàng liàng eigenvector (math.) / also written 特徵向量|特征向量
 bō shù zhǐ xiàng beam pointing
 bù liáng qīng xiàng harmful trend
 dān wèi xiàng liàng unit vector (math.)
 dān xiàng diàn liú (elec.) unidirectional current / DC / also written 直流[zhi2 liu2]
 dǎo xiàng mù biāo targeting
 dǎo xiàng zhuāng zhì guiding device
 dìng xiàng bǔ lāo directed fishing
 dìng xiàng yuè yě cross-country orienteering
 dìng xiàng yú yè directed fishery
 dìng xiàng zhì cái smart sanctions / targeted sanctions
 duì xiàng hǎi àn opposite coasts
 fǎn xiàng gòu mǎi counterpurchase
 fù fǎ xiàng liàng binormal vector (to a space curve)
 gè xiàng tóng xìng isotropy
 jiě lǐ fāng xiàng direction of cleavage (e.g. of slate)
 jīng xiàng shū sòng meridional transfer
 máo tóu zhǐ xiàng to target sb or sth (for attack, criticism etc)
 mēng tóu zhuǎn xiàng to lose one's bearings / utterly confused
 miàn xiàng lián jiē connection-oriented
 nu:3 shēng wài xiàng a woman is born to leave her family (idiom) / a woman's heart is with her husband
 nù mù xiāng xiàng to glower at each other (idiom)
 qiē xiàng sù dù tangential velocity
 quán jiǎo xiāng xiàng to square off / to exchange blows / to rain blows on sb
 qū lu:4 xiàng liàng curvature vector
 qù xiàng bù míng missing / lost
 shuāng xiàng wén zì bidirectional script
 tè zhēng xiàng liàng eigenvector (math.)
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