肖
2 readings · tap one to hear it
similar; resembling; to resemble; to be like
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 肉 +3
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 肖
- Common rank
- #2,470
- Unicode
- U+8096
Sound it out + + = · + + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 肖 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
⺼ meaning “flesh - "in the flesh"” + ⺌ sound
Components ⺌ ⺼
How to remember it
resemble · Heisig RSH #128
小 small + flesh — as a component also called: sparks, candle
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 肖
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 生肖属相 | birth year as designated by animal symbols (mouse, ox, tiger etc) | |
| 努瓦克肖特 | Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania | |
| 肖伯纳 | Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish-born British playwright | |
| 维妙维肖 | to imitate to perfection; to be remarkably true to life | |
| 肖像权 | portrait rights; right to one's image | |
| 不肖 | (literary) unlike one's parents; degenerate; unworthy | |
| 生肖 | one of the twelve animals symbolic of the earthly branches 地支[di4 zhi1]; animal from the C… | |
| 肖想 | (Tw) to dream of having (sth one cannot possibly have); to covet (sth beyond one's grasp) … | |
| 肖恩 | Sean, Shaun or Shawn (name) | |
| 肖像 | portrait (painting, photo etc); (in a general sense) representation of a person; likeness | |
| 肖扬 | Xiao Yang (1938-), president of the PRC Supreme Court 1998-2008 | |
| 肖邦 | Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), Polish pianist and composer | |
| 逼肖 | to bear a close resemblance to; to be the very image of | |
| 肖似 | to resemble; to look like | |
| 毕肖 | to resemble closely; to be the very image of; to look very much like; to be the spitting i… | |
| 酷肖 | to strikingly resemble | |
| 惟妙惟肖 | to imitate to perfection; to be remarkably true to life | |
| 肖蛸 | variant of 蠨蛸|蟏蛸[xiao1 shao1] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component ⺌ — compare how they read.