Pinyin: xiàng

toward

Example sentence

向前走五分钟。

Xiàng qián zǒu wǔ fēnzhōng.

Walk forward for five minutes.

What 向 means

(xiàng) is a Chinese word meaning “toward”. It belongs to the Grammar Words topic and appears at HSK 2 (and again in HSK 3), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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