Chinese symbol for “likeness”
肖像
xiào xiàng
portrait (painting, photo etc); (in a general sense) representation of a person; likeness
The closest CC-CEDICT match for likeness is 肖像 (xiào xiàng), defined as: portrait (painting, photo etc); (in a general sense) representation of a person; likeness.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 肖像.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 好像 | hǎo xiàng | as if; to seem like |
| 图像 (圖像) | tú xiàng | image; picture; graphic |
| 偶像 | ǒu xiàng | idol |
See also: Japanese symbol for “likeness”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.