趋向 (趨向)
qū xiàng
Pinyin

Definition

趋向 (趨向)
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qū xiàng
  1. direction
  2. trend
  3. to incline

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

向
Xiàng
  1. 1 surname Xiang
方向
fāng xiàng
  1. 1 direction
  2. 2 orientation
  3. 3 path to follow
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
一向
yī xiàng
  1. 1 always (previously)
  2. 2 a period of time in the recent past
倾向
qīng xiàng
  1. 1 trend
  2. 2 tendency
  3. 3 orientation
内向
nèi xiàng
  1. 1 reserved (personality)
  2. 2 introverted
  3. 3 (economics etc) domestic-oriented

Idioms (10)

向壁虚构
xiàng bì xū gòu
  1. 1 facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
向壁虚造
xiàng bì xū zào
  1. 1 facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
向隅
xiàng yú
  1. 1 lit. to face the corner (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to miss out on sth
女生外向
nǚ shēng wài xiàng
  1. 1 a woman is born to leave her family (idiom)
  2. 2 a woman's heart is with her husband
好好学习，天天向上
hǎo hǎo xué xí , tiān tiān xiàng shàng
  1. 1 study hard and every day you will improve (idiom)

Sample Sentences

趋向动词
qūxiàng dòngcí
directional verbs
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上午我在报纸上看到一篇联合国人口司发表的最新研究报告，说现在世界人口已经逐步趋向老龄化。你说如果几十年后世界上大多数都是老人，该是件多么可怕的事情？
shàngwǔ wǒ zài bàozhǐ shàng kàndào yī piān liánhéguó rénkǒusī fābiǎo de zuìxīn yánjiū bàogào ，shuō xiànzài shìjiè rénkǒu yǐjīng zhúbù qūxiàng lǎolínghuà 。nǐ shuō rúguǒ jǐ shí nián hòu shìjiè shàng dàduōshù dōu shì lǎorén ，gāi shì jiàn duōme kěpà de shìqing ？
This morning I saw a report in the newspaper about the latest research publication by the UN Population Division. It said that the world's population is getting gradually older. Tell me, how scary would it be if after a few more decades, most of the Earth's population were old people?
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