HSK 6 · Media

肖像 xiàoxiàng “portrait” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 肖像 means

  1. portrait
  2. portrait (painting, photo etc)
  3. (in a general sense) representation of a person
  4. likeness

How to say 肖像

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale肖xiào4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale像xiàng4th tone, falling

肖像 in a sentence

  1. 国王的肖像揭晓，收获了热烈的掌声。

    Guówáng de xiàoxiàng jiēxiǎo, shōuhuò le rèliè de zhǎngshēng.

    The king’s portrait was unveiled to warm applause.

    Sentence #13175454 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 我的一个朋友请了个著名画家给妻子画肖像。

    Wǒ de yí ge péngyou qǐng le ge zhùmíng huàjiā gěi qīzi huà xiàoxiàng.

    A friend of mine asked a famous painter to paint his wife’s portrait.

    Sentence #5624962 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 墙上有一张鲍勃的肖像画。

    Qiáng shàng yǒu yì zhāng Bàobó de xiàoxiànghuà.

    There’s a portrait of Bob on the wall.

    Sentence #466010 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 肖像 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 肖 (xiào) with each of its parts in a different colour
肖xiàosimilar
  • ⺌small form of 小 · xiǎoSound part
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); ⺌ (xiǎo) hints at the sound. Compare it with xiào.

The character 像 (xiàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
像xiàngto resemble
  • 亻person form of 人 · rénMeaning part
  • 象elephant · xiàngSound part

亻 hints at the meaning (person); 象 (xiàng) hints at the sound. Compare it with xiàng.

How to write 肖像

肖 7 strokes · 像 13 strokes

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

Words related to 肖像

Words with 肖

生肖shēngxiào · Chinese zodiac sign

Words with 像

像xiàng · be like好像hǎoxiàng · as if偶像ǒuxiàng · idol不像话búxiànghuà · unreasonable

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FAQs

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