Zi:象
象 [xiàng] appearance, shape, image; 好像/象 seem, be like/similar to; 想象 imagine; 大象 elephant, 象牙 ivory; 象征 symbol; 天象 constellation; (HDZ:) …
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The Shuōwén Seal form of 象(𧰼) xiàng ‘elephant/ivory’ is said to be a pictograph depicting an elephant with long trunk, tusks, large ears, four legs/feet, and tail; the shape ⺈ seems to represent the tusks (and/or trunk), not the mahout (cf. 为); the shape 𫩏/𠔿 at the bottom of (below the tusks) represents the large ears (left and right); the legs/feet and tail are drawn like 𧰨 at the bottom of 豕 shǐ ‘boar/swine/hog/pig’; later wr. 像 in some senses.
Compare: 象 xiàng ‘elephant; ivory; image/symbol/n-gram/omen’ (易) (大象); 像 xiàng ‘be like/similar’.
In old graphs associated with 象, the shape ⺈ corresponds to the trunk (not the tusks).
Compare: 豫(𠄛) yù ‘great/gentle elephant’ (䷏); 为/為(爲𤔡𬊓𫞟), 爲.
Compare: 角(𧢲) jiǎo ‘horn/antler’, 鱼/魚(𤋳) yú ‘fish’ (with the same kind of top, in Song and Seal forms).
“Elephant; ivory; figure cut in ivory, figure, image, form; similar, to resemble; comparison, symbol, model” —Karlgren(1923).
Compare: 像 xiàng ‘image’ (肖像 ‘portrait’), sometimes wr. 象 (好像/象 ‘the picture of ...’)' cf. 相 xiàng ‘watch/observe’ (相/像貌 ‘look/appearance’, 照相/像 ‘photograph’).
Compare: 橡 xiàng ‘oak’, the old wr. was 樣; 橡 xiàng ‘rubber’, as in 橡胶树 ‘India rubber tree’ (象 ‘(Indian) elephant’).
HDZ: 象 : xiàng : (动物名) 陆地上现存最大的哺乳动物 (耳朵大, 鼻子长圆筒形, 能蜷曲, 多有长大的门牙伸出口外, 全身毛很稀疏, 皮很厚, 力强, 性温顺); (简称) 象牙; 形象, 有形可见之物 (天象, 星象, 万象更新); 相貌, 肖像; (易) (术语) 用卦爻等符号表示自然变化和人事休咎 (大象); 象征; 摹拟, 描绘; 效法; 想象; 相似, 好像; (古) (象胥); 法, 法令; 执法, 以法治理; 道理; (器名) 象尊: 酒器; (古乐名); (古) 舞蹈; (中医) 气象 (五脏之象); (姓); cf. 槽 (檀槽, 石槽)
►references: Guǎngyùn:310.20; Wieger:69L; Karlgren:AD787,GSR728a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:6.3611.9; Lindqvist:90; Mathews:2568; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:1195.21; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:201.0.02; Wáng(1993):52; EDOC:1
►components: ⺈口𧰨𫩏豕
►Cantonese: jeuhng-
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<comp char='口' uni='53E3' points='18,32 108,54' />
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<stroke type='p' points='61,66 3,99' tail='long' />
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<stroke type='p' points='120,63 80,86' />
<stroke type='n' points='77,79 128,118' head='cut' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='𠂊' uni='2008A' variant='1' points='0,0 128,64'>
<stroke type='p' points='64,0 0,124' tail='long' />
<stroke type='hg' points='52,46 128,46 92,128' head='cut' />
<!-- variant based on [U+2E88](V=0) -->
</cdl>
<cdl char='口' uni='53E3' points='24,24 104,104'>
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<stroke type='h' points='0,128 128,128' head='cut' tail='cut' />
<!-- 2010-03-11T17:40:58Z -->
</cdl>
<cdl char='冂' uni='5182' variant='5' points='4,4 124,128'>
<stroke type='s' points='0,0 0,128' tail='long' />
<stroke type='hz' points='0,0 128,0 128,128' head='cut' tail='long' />
<!-- variant based on [U+EF7E](V=0) -->
</cdl>
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