样
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manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type
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Dict coverage rank #717 U+6837
How 样 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
木 (semantic, “tree”) + 羊 (phonetic, yáng)
How to remember it
appearance · Heisig RSH #532
木 tree + 羊 sheep
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 羊
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 羊 (yáng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 羊 sound component | yáng | sheep, goat |
| 洋 | yáng | sea, ocean; western, foreign |
| 养 | yǎng | to raise, to rear, to bring up; to support |
| 氧 | yǎng | oxygen |
| 鲜 | xiān | fresh; delicious; attractive |
| 祥 | xiáng | happiness, good fortune; auspicious |
| 痒 | yǎng | to itch; to tickle |
| 详 | xiáng | complete, detailed, thorough |
| 翔 | xiáng | to soar, to hover, to glide |
| 羌 | qiāng | Qiang nationality; surname |
| 恙 | yàng | illness, sickness; indisposition |
| 羟 | qiǎng | hydroxide |
| 佯 | yáng | to pretend, to feign; false, deceitful |
| 徉 | yáng | to wander, to stray, to roam; to hesitate |
| 烊 | yáng | to smelt; to close for the night |
| 庠 | xiáng | village school; teach |
| 羰 | tāng | carbonyl group |
| 蛘 | yáng | rice weevil |
Words containing 样
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 生物多样性 | shēng wù duō yàng xìng | biodiversity |
| 不成样子 | bù chéng yàng zi | shapeless; deformed; ruined; beyond recognition; (of a person) reduced to a shadow |
| 生命多样性 | shēng mìng duō yàng xìng | biodiversity |
| 不一样 | bù yī yàng | different; distinctive; unlike |
| 一毛一样 | yī máo yī yàng | (coll.) exactly alike; identical |
| 反正一样 | fǎn zhèng yī yàng | whether it's right or wrong doesn't make a lot of difference; six of one and half a dozen … |
| 成样子 | chéng yàng zi | seemly; presentable |
| 老样子 | lǎo yàng zi | old situation; things as they were |
| 一天一个样 | yī tiān yī ge yàng | to change from day to day |
| 多样性 | duō yàng xìng | variegation; diversity |
| 多样化 | duō yàng huà | diversification; to diversify |
| 花样年华 | huā yàng nián huá | full bloom of youth |
| 空气取样器 | kōng qì qǔ yàng qì | air sampler |
| 变样儿 | biàn yàng r | erhua variant of 變樣|变样[bian4 yang4] |
| 两样东西 | liǎng yàng dōng xi | two distinct things |
| 多种多样 | duō zhǒng duō yàng | manifold; all sorts; many and varied |
| 走样儿 | zǒu yàng r | to lose shape; to deform |
| 大样 | dà yàng | arrogant; full-page proofs (of newspaper); detailed drawing |
| 样子 | yàng zi | appearance; manner; pattern; model |
| 一样 | yī yàng | same; like; equal to; the same as; just like |