像

See also: 象
像 U+50CF, 像
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50CF
← 僎
[U+50CE] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 僐 →
[U+50D0]
像 U+2F80B, 像
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F80B
← 僧
[U+2F80A] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 㒞 →
[U+2F80C]

Translingual
Stroke order

Han character

像 (radical 9, 人+11 in Chinese, 人+12 in Japanese, 13 strokes in Chinese, 14 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 人弓日人 (ONAO), four-corner 27232, composition ⿰亻象)

References
  • KangXi: page 116, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1084
  • Dae Jaweon: page 247, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 213, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+50CF

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 像

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 像
Small seal script

s05896

Transcribed ancient scripts

L35060

L17399

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (象) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
潒 *l'aːŋʔ, *ljaŋʔ
像 *ljaŋʔ
象 *ljaŋʔ
橡 *ljaŋʔ
蟓 *ljaŋʔ, *hljaŋs
襐 *ljaŋʔ
勨 *ljaŋʔ, *laŋʔ
鱌 *ljaŋʔ
嶑 *ljaŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ljaŋʔ) : semantic 亻 (“man”) + phonetic 象 (OC *ljaŋʔ, “elephant; image”).

Pronunciation
Note:
  • chhiūⁿ/chhiǔⁿ/chhiōⁿ - vernacular;
  • siōng/siǒng/siāng - literary.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 像
Mandarin Beijing /ɕiɑŋ⁵¹/
Harbin /ɕiaŋ⁵³/
Tianjin /ɕiɑŋ⁵³/
Jinan /ɕiaŋ²¹/
Qingdao /siaŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /siaŋ³¹²/
Xi'an /ɕiaŋ⁴⁴/
Xining /ɕiɔ̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /ɕiɑŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /ɕiɑ̃¹³/
Ürümqi /ɕiɑŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /ɕiaŋ³⁵/
/t͡ɕʰiaŋ³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡ɕʰiaŋ¹³/
/ɕiaŋ¹³/
Guiyang /t͡ɕʰiaŋ²¹³/ 不～他
/ɕiaŋ²¹³/ ～片
Kunming /ɕiã̠²¹²/
Nanjing /siaŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /ɕiɑ̃⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕiɒ̃⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ɕyə³⁵/ 相像
Hohhot /ɕiɑ̃⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ʑiã²³/
Suzhou /ziã³¹/
Hangzhou /d͡ʑiɑŋ¹³/
Wenzhou /ji³⁵/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʰia³⁵/
/t͡sʰia²²/
Tunxi /t͡sʰiau²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /sian⁵⁵/
/sian¹¹/
/t͡sian¹¹/
Xiangtan /d͡zian²¹/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕʰiɔŋ²¹/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰioŋ⁵³/
Taoyuan /sioŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sœŋ²²/
Nanning /t͡sœŋ²²/
Hong Kong /t͡sœŋ²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /siɔŋ²²/
/t͡sʰiũ²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sʰuɔŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /siɔŋ³³/
/siɔŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰiõ³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /siaŋ³⁵/
Rime
Character 像
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 邪 (17)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 徐兩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /zɨɐŋX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ziɐŋX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ziɑŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /zɨaŋX/
Li
Rong		 /ziaŋX/
Wang
Li		 /zĭaŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /zi̯aŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiàng
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 像
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiàng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ zjangX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s.[d]aŋʔ/
English image; resemble

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 像
Reading # 1/1
No. 13663
Phonetic
component		 象
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 像
Old
Chinese		 /*ljaŋʔ/

Definitions

像

  1. picture; image; figure
  2. statue; figure; sculpture
  3. to resemble; to be like

Synonyms
  • (to be like):
Synonyms of 像

Compounds
Derived terms from 像

Japanese

Kanji
像

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Noun

像 (hiragana ぞう, rōmaji zō, historical hiragana ざう)

  1. a form of a thing, including god; a figure; a statue; an idol
  2. an image

Korean

Hanja

像 • (sang)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): 상 (revised: sang, McCune–Reischauer: sang, Yale: sang)
    • Name (hangeul): 형상
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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

像 (tượng)

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