襄 - to help, to assist, mutual assistance, to rush into or up, to raise or hold up, high, tall, old variant of 欀, chariot horse (old), change (old) - xiāng | Definition | ChinesePod.com

襄

xiāng

Pinyin

Definition

襄

-

xiāng

to help
to assist
mutual assistance
to rush into or up
to raise or hold up
high
tall
old variant of 欀
chariot horse (old)
change (old)

襄

-

Xiāng

surname Xiang

Character Decomposition

Compounds (16)

rǎng

1 to blurt out
2 to shout

rǎng

1 soil
2 earth

xiāng

1 to inlay
2 to embed
3 ridge
4 border

rǎng

1 to push up one's sleeves
2 to reject or resist
3 to seize
4 to perturb
5 to steal

xiāng

1 (literary) to run friskily (of a horse)
2 to raise
3 to hold high

Related Words (12)

Xiāng fán

1 Xiangfan prefecture level city in Hubei

Xiāng yáng

1 Xiangyang district of Xiangfan city 襄樊市[Xiāng fán shì], Hubei

gòng xiāng shèng jǔ

1 to cooperate on a great undertaking or joint project

Dìng xiāng

1 Dingxiang county in Xinzhou 忻州[Xīn zhōu], Shanxi

Cài Xiāng

1 Cai Xiang (1012-1067), Song calligrapher

Idioms (1)

神女有心，襄王无梦

shén nǚ yǒu xīn , Xiāng Wáng wú mèng

1 lit. the fairy is willing, but King Xiang doesn't dream (idiom)
2 (said of a woman's unrequited love)

Sample Sentences

举个例子，《左传·襄公二十七年》中记载，齐景公和郑简公为解救被晋国拘禁的卫献公而带领侍从出使晋国。在如此微妙的外交情境中，其中的外交辞令引用了无数《诗经》之语。

jǔ gè lìzi ，《Zuǒzhuàn ·Xiānggōng èrshí qī nián 》zhōng jìzǎi ，Qíjǐnggōng hé Zhèngjiǎngōng wèi jiějiù bèi jìnguó jūjìn de Wèixiàngōng ér dàilǐng shìcóng chūshǐ jìnguó 。zài rúcǐ wēimiào de wàijiāo qíngjìng zhōng ，qízhōngde wàijiāo cílìng yǐnyòng le wúshù 《shījīng 》zhī yǔ 。

As an example, in the records of the 27th year of the reign of Duke Xiang of Lu in the Commentary of Zuo, to rescue Duke Xian of Wei from imprisonment by the Jin, Duke Jing of Qi and Duke Jian of Zheng led a delegation to Jin. In such particular diplomatic circumstances, the diplomatic rhetoric made innumerable references to poems in the Shijing.