HSK 6 · Places

巷 xiàng “lane” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 巷 means

  1. lane
  2. alley

How to say 巷

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale巷xiàng4th tone, falling

巷 in a sentence

  1. 我在小巷子里转向了。

    Wǒ zài xiǎo xiàngzi lǐ zhuànxiàng le.

    I lost my bearings in the little lanes.

    Sentence #5292979 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 巷 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 巷 (xiàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
巷xiànglane
  • 共all · gòng
  • 巳part of the character

How to write 巷

巷 9 strokes

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巷 (xiàng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 巷 (xiàng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

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FAQs

巷 (xiàng) means “lane” or “alley”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it xiàng: xiàng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 巷 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xiang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 巷 from the suggestions. Typing xiang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
巷 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.