肖 — Chinese character
肖
xiào
to resemble, to look like; to be like
- Pinyin
- xiào
- Radical
- 130 ⾁ (Meat)
- Strokes
- 7
- Formation
- pictophonetic — flesh - "in the flesh"; meaning component ⺼; sound component ⺌
- Japanese
- 肖 as a kanji
Common words with 肖
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 肖像 | xiào xiàng | portrait (painting, photo etc); (in a general sense) representation of a person |
| 生肖 | shēng xiào | one of the twelve animals symbolic of the earthly branches 地支 (dì zhī); animal from the Chinese zodiac |
| 不肖 | bù xiào | (literary) unlike one's parents; degenerate |
| 惟妙惟肖 | wéi miào wéi xiào | to imitate to perfection; to be remarkably true to life |
| 肖像权 (肖像權) | xiào xiàng quán | portrait rights; right to one's image |
| 毕肖 (畢肖) | bì xiào | to resemble closely; to be the very image of |
| 维妙维肖 (維妙維肖) | wéi miào wéi xiào | to imitate to perfection; to be remarkably true to life |
| 酷肖 | kù xiào | to strikingly resemble |
| 肖想 | xiào xiǎng | (Tw) to dream of having (sth one cannot possibly have); to covet (sth beyond one's grasp) (from Taiwanese 數想, Tai-lo pr. [siàu-siūnn]) |
| 逼肖 | bī xiào | to bear a close resemblance to; to be the very image of |
| 肖似 | xiào sì | to resemble; to look like |
| 生肖属相 (生肖屬相) | shēng xiào shǔ xiàng | birth year as designated by animal symbols (mouse, ox, tiger etc) |
English words written with 肖
肖 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 3 · Mencius 6 · Zhuangzi 12 · Doctrine of the Mean 2
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 67
- Mencius 2B.7
- Mencius 4B.7
- Mencius 5A.6
- Mencius 6B.6
- Zhuangzi Man Among Men
- Zhuangzi The Evidence of Virtue Complete
- Zhuangzi Opening Trunks
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.