向 [, ]
xiàng
- Prepositiontowards; to face; to turn towards
1.他向窗外看了一眼。He glanced out the window.
2.他向着门口走去。He walked towards the door.
3.他向着镜头挥手，却忘了自己还在演讲。He waved at the camera, forgetting he was still giving a speech.
- direction
- shortly before; formerly
他向晚时分出了门。He went out shortly before dusk.
- Verbto support; to side with
他明显是向着老板的。He is clearly siding with the boss.
- Adverbalways; all along
- Nounsuitable for ... (suffix); oriented to ...
xiàng
- Verbto tend toward
1.这个趋势向好的方向发展。The trend is turning positive.
2.他的视线慢慢向门口移去。His gaze slowly moved toward the door.
3.随着科技的发展，人们的支付方式正逐渐向无现金方向转变。With the development of technology, people's payment methods are gradually shifting toward a cashless direction.
- to guide
xiàng
- Noundirection; orientation
- Verbto face; to turn toward; to; towards
他向朋友道歉。He apologized to his friend.
- Adverbshortly before; formerly
About MyCidian
MyCidian is a free, web-based Chinese-English dictionary designed for native English speakers.
MyCidian is heavily inspired by Jisho.org, my favorite Japanese dictionary website. One of my biggest priorities when designing MyCidian was convenience. I wanted looking up a word to be quick, simple, and actually useful for someone who is learning Chinese.
This project is still ongoing and will only get better. It's free and staying that way. Web only, with no app planned. Ad-free for now; if that ever changes, signing in will remove them.
Some decisions
- Recent lookups stay in your browser
- They're per-device and disposable, so there's nothing worth syncing and no search history kept on the server. Saved words are the part worth keeping, so those live on your account instead.
- Every alternate form, not a guess
- One simplified character can stand for several traditional ones — 发 is both 發 (to send) and 髮 (hair). Picking one to display would look cleaner and lose the distinction.
Where the data comes from
- CC-CEDICT
- The core dictionary.
- Make Me a Hanzi
- Stroke order, radicals and character composition.
- HSK 3.0 word lists
- Proficiency-level browsing, by HSK 3.0 level. A word the 3.0 lists leave out keeps its HSK 2.0 level.
- Example sentences
- Over 70,000 checked sentences. About 51,000 were written by Qwen3.8-27B running locally; the rest (about 20,000) are older Claude Haiku examples. They were checked by Claude Sonnet, with a native-speaker spot check (94% natural in a 50-sentence sample). A few hundred older, unchecked Haiku examples are still shown where no checked sentence exists.
- Claude Haiku
- An enrichment pass grouping senses, plus a separate one tagging archaic and literary usage.
Built by Zeb Barrett
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Credits
MyCidian is built on several openly licensed datasets. Every one currently in use is credited below, by name, with the licence it ships under.
- CC-CEDICT
- The core dictionary — headwords, pinyin and English definitions. Source, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Make Me a Hanzi — dictionary data
- Character definitions, derived from Unihan and CJKlib. Source, licensed LGPL 3.0.
- Make Me a Hanzi — stroke-order graphics
- Stroke order animation, radicals and character decomposition, derived from the Arphic PL KaitiM GB and PL UKai fonts. Source, licensed under the Arphic Public License.
- hanziDB.csv
- Character frequency ranking. Source, licensed MIT.
- HSK 3.0 word lists
- Proficiency-level browsing, compiled from the public HSK 3.0 standard by two open-source projects: complete-hsk-vocabulary and hsk30, both licensed MIT.
- wordfreq
- Word frequency ranking, used to put the commoner word first when several entries share a meaning. Compiled by Robyn Speer at Luminoso (version 3.1.1). Source, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. MyCidian has changed the data: the frequencies are converted to a rank and matched to CC-CEDICT headwords.
- The sources behind wordfreq's Chinese list
- Wikipedia; OPUS OpenSubtitles 2018, from the OpenSubtitles project; SUBTLEX-CH, freely available data created by Marc Brysbaert et al. (Cai & Brysbaert, 2010); NewsCrawl 2014 and GlobalVoices news text; Google Books Ngrams 2012; web text from OSCAR; Twitter; and the word list distributed with the Jieba word segmenter.
See About for how MyCidian is built, or ask a question if something here needs a correction.
Practice sheets
Blank grids for practicing Chinese character strokes by hand — print a sheet and write till your hand falls off
田字格 (tián zì gé)
Quadrant guides for proportion. The standard.
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20 mm boxes — largest
田字格 sheet, 20 mm boxes (PDF) -
18 mm boxes
田字格 sheet, 18 mm boxes (PDF) -
17 mm boxes — most per page
田字格 sheet, 17 mm boxes (PDF)
米字格 (mǐ zì gé)
Adds diagonals, for placing slanted strokes.
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20 mm boxes — largest
米字格 sheet, 20 mm boxes (PDF) -
18 mm boxes
米字格 sheet, 18 mm boxes (PDF) -
17 mm boxes — most per page
米字格 sheet, 17 mm boxes (PDF)
All sheets are A4. Printing on Letter paper? Select "Fit to page" in your print dialog so the grid isn't cropped.
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