象 xiàng elephant; shape
A measure word to use for this noun: 头 tóu
Made with 11 strokes.
A picture of a rearing elephant with head, tusks, legs and a tail
Ancient small seal form
Different tone
香 xiāng (fragrant) ; 相 xiāng (each other) ; 乡 xiāng (countryside) ; 想 xiǎng (to think)Pronunciation
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Proverbs
人心不足蛇吞象 rén xīn bù zú shé tūn xiàng Greed is insatiable盲人摸象 máng rén mō xiàng Seeing only part of the situation. A Buddhist tale of how a group of blind men each felt a different part of an elephant and came to very different ideas of what it was. One felt a tusk (a huge carrot?), one a ear (a flat dish?), one a leg (a column?) and the fourth the tail (a rope?). None could agree as to what it was.