样
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manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 木 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 樣
- Common rank
- #717
- Unicode
- U+6837
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 样
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一样 | same; like; equal to; the same as; just like | |
| 生物多样性 | biodiversity | |
| 不成样子 | shapeless; deformed; ruined; beyond recognition; (of a person) reduced to a shadow | |
| 生命多样性 | biodiversity | |
| 不一样 | different; distinctive; unlike | |
| 一毛一样 | (coll.) exactly alike; identical | |
| 反正一样 | whether it's right or wrong doesn't make a lot of difference; six of one and half a dozen … | |
| 成样子 | seemly; presentable | |
| 老样子 | old situation; things as they were | |
| 一天一个样 | to change from day to day | |
| 多样性 | variegation; diversity | |
| 多样化 | diversification; to diversify | |
| 花样年华 | full bloom of youth | |
| 空气取样器 | air sampler | |
| 变样儿 | erhua variant of 變樣|变样[bian4 yang4] | |
| 两样东西 | two distinct things | |
| 多种多样 | manifold; all sorts; many and varied | |
| 走样儿 | to lose shape; to deform | |
| 大样 | arrogant; full-page proofs (of newspaper); detailed drawing | |
| 样子 | appearance; manner; pattern; model |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 羊 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 羊 sound part | sheep, goat | |
| 洋 | sea, ocean; western, foreign | |
| 养 | to raise, to rear, to bring up; to support | |
| 氧 | oxygen | |
| 鲜 | fresh; delicious; attractive | |
| 祥 | happiness, good fortune; auspicious | |
| 痒 | to itch; to tickle | |
| 详 | complete, detailed, thorough | |
| 翔 | to soar, to hover, to glide | |
| 羌 | Qiang nationality; surname | |
| 恙 | illness, sickness; indisposition | |
| 羟 | hydroxide | |
| 佯 | to pretend, to feign; false, deceitful | |
| 徉 | to wander, to stray, to roam; to hesitate | |
| 烊 | to smelt; to close for the night | |
| 庠 | village school; teach | |
| 羰 | carbonyl group | |
| 蛘 | rice weevil |