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照相

zhào xiàng 4–4

to take a photograph

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
照 · 相
Syllables
2
zhào xiàng
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 9,002

Part of speech: v,vn

Character by character

  • 照zhào13 strokesHSK 2shine, illumine, reflect
  • 相xiāng9 strokesHSK 2mutual, reciprocal, each other

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 这是我的照相机。

    Zhè shì wǒ de zhào xiàng jī

    This is my camera.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 照相. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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