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属相

shǔ xiàng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 屬相

属相 (shǔ xiàng) means "colloquial term for {生肖|shēng xiào} the animals associated with the years of a 12-year cycle". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 属相 means

1. colloquial term for {生肖|shēng xiào} the animals associated with the years of a 12-year cycle

The characters in 属相

• 属shǔcategory; genus (taxonomy); family members
• 相xiāngeach other; one another; mutually

Example sentences

• 以动物命名人的属相，是因为我们的先民与这些动物有密切关系。
  Yǐ dòngwù mìngmíng rén de shǔxiàng, shì yīnwèi wǒmen de xiānmín yǔ zhèxiē dòngwù yǒu mìqiè guānxi.
  Our ancestors used animals to name the years of people's births as their lives were closely connected to these animals.

Words containing 属相

• 生肖属相shēng xiào shǔ xiàngbirth year as designated by animal symbols (mouse, ox, tiger etc)

Sounds the same

Read shǔ xiàng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 蜀相the Prime Minister of Shu (i.e. Zhuge Liang 诸葛亮
• 属象variant of 属相

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