形 xíng
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xíng
noun
appearance
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 形 is synonomous with 容色 or 容貌. For example, 形形色色 'many appearances and colors' (CCI p. 33; Guoyu '形' n 2; Kroll 2015 '形' 1, p. 509; Unihan '形') -
xíng
noun
adjective
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Grammar
Notes: Short for 形容词 (Guoyu '形容詞') -
xíng
noun
shape; form
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '形'; Guoyu '形' n 1; Kroll 2015 '形' 2, p. 509; Unihan '形'; XHZD '形' 1, p. 836) -
xíng
noun
terrain
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As in 地形 (Guoyu '形' n 4) -
xíng
noun
circumstances; situation
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 形 is synonomous with 情势 (Guoyu '形' n 3) -
xíng
verb
to form; to become
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 构成 (Guoyu '形' v 2; Kroll 2015 '形' 3, p. 509) -
xíng
verb
to appear; to manifest
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 形 is synonomous with 显露 or 显示 (CC-CEDICT '形'; Guoyu '形' v 1; Kroll 2015 '形' 3a, p. 509; XHZD '形' 3, p. 836) -
xíng
verb
to contrast; to compare
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 形 is synonomous with 比较 or 对照 (Guoyu '形' v 4; Kroll 2015 '形' 4, p. 509; XHZD '形' 4, p. 836) -
xíng
verb
to describe
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 形 is synonomous with 描绘, as in 形容 (Guoyu '形' v 3) -
xíng
noun
an entity
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (XHZD '形' 2, p. 836) -
xíng
adjective
formal
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '形' 1b, p. 509) -
xíng
noun
punishment
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: As a variant of 刑 (Kroll 2015 '形' 5, p. 509)
Contained in
- 波形 wave form
- 形赠影(形贈影) substance speaks to shadow
- 成形 to take shape; shaping; forming
- 形同陌路 to be estranged
- 身形 figure
- 形迹可疑(形跡可疑) suspicious marks
- 知地形 to know the terrain
- 放浪形骸 to abandon all restraint
- 蠕形动物(蠕形動物) soft-bodied organisms; vermes (obsolete taxonomic term)
- 形役 to do work; to do manual labor
- 异形(異形) not the usual type; atypical; heterotype
- 无形中(無形中) imperceptibly; virtually
- 队形(隊形) formation
- 梯形 a trapezoid
- 神劳形瘁(神勞形瘁) to be completely drained both emotionally and physically
- 形容辞(形容辭) adjective
- 形影相随(形影相隨) body and shadow follow each other; inseparable
- 完形 total form; coherent whole
- 矫形牙套(矯形牙套) orthodontic brace
- 如影随形(如影隨形) closely associated with each other; to follow closely
- 六边形(六邊形) hexagon
- 遁形 to vanish; to hide; to cover one's traces
- 畸形 deformity; abnormality ; something unusual or not in accordance with common sense
- 马鹿易形(馬鹿易形) to distinguish horse and deer easily; to know right from wrong
- 象形字 pictogram
- 碎形 fractal
- 形单影只(形單影隻) lonely soul; solitary
- 整形外科医生(整形外科醫生) plastic surgeon
- 影答形 shadow responds to form
- 螺旋形 spiral
- 山形墙(山形牆) a gable; a pediment
- 六角形 hexagon
- 凸多边形(凸多邊形) convex polygon
- 物种形成(物種形成) speciation
- 形势(形勢) circumstances; situation ; exterior ; terrain ; authority ; battle formation
- 两性异形(兩性異形) sexual dimorphism
- 月牙形 crescent
- 长筒形(長筒形) a cylinder
- 形声(形聲) phonogram
- 不定形 indeterminate form
- 五笔字形(五筆字形) Wubi Chinese character input method
- 多角形 polygon; same as 多邊形|多边形
- 概形 scheme (in algebraic geometry)
- 象形 pictogram; xiangshi graph
Also contained in
全形 、 视频图形阵列 、 图形 、 词形变化 、 形影神 、 图形化 、 半形
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- Daode Jing 《道德經》 Daode Jing 道德經 — count: 35
- 卷四十八 列傳第四十二 儒林 Volume 48: Confucian Scholars Book of Liang 梁書 — count: 32
- 卷十一 Scroll 11 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 30
- 第一 律曆上 律準 候氣 Volume 91: Rhythm and the Calendar Part One Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 23
- 孫子兵法 The Art of War by Sunzi Art of War 孫子兵法 — count: 22
- 卷十七 Scroll 17 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 21
- 卷七十九 志第二十九: 輿服二 Volume 79 Treatises 32: Carriages and Clothes 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 21
- 卷五十五 Scroll 55 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 21
- 卷二十九 魏書二十九 方技傳 Volume 29: Book of Wei 29 - Biographies of fangshis and artisans Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 21
- 卷一 原道訓 Chapter 1: The Original Way Huainanzi 淮南子 — count: 18
Collocations
- 形生理 (形生理) 形生理 — Guanzi 管子, 幼官第八 Chapter 8: Young Officials — count: 10
- 未形 (未形) 其止邪也於未形 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《經解》 The Different Teachings of the Different Kings — count: 8
- 形性 (形性) 安形性 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 4
- 形盐 (形鹽) 形鹽 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 3
- 正形 (正形) 正形飾德 — Guanzi 管子, 心術下第三十七 Chapter 37: Scheming II — count: 3
- 形不正 (形不正) 形不正者德不來 — Guanzi 管子, 心術下第三十七 Chapter 37: Scheming II — count: 2
- 形方 (形方) 形方氏 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 夏官司馬 第四 4. Offices of Summer and Minister of War — count: 2
- 固有形 (固有形) 物固有形 — Guanzi 管子, 心術上第三十六 Chapter 36: Scheming I — count: 2
- 形固有 (形固有) 形固有名 — Guanzi 管子, 心術上第三十六 Chapter 36: Scheming I — count: 2
- 易形 (易形) 違時易形 — Guanzi 管子, 霸言第二十三 Chapter 23: The Sovereign's Words — count: 2