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样

yàng

HSK 1 Character Traditional 樣

What 样 means

1. manner
2. pattern
3. way
4. appearance
5. shape
6. classifier: kind, type

Example sentences

• 怎么样？
  How?
• 都一样。
  It's all the same.
• 别这样！
  Don't do it!
• 怎幺样？
  How?
• 你认为怎样
  What do you think of it?
• 最近咋样？
  Zuì jìn zǎ yàng?
  How've ya' been lately?

Words starting with 样

• 样子yàng ziappearance; manner; pattern
• 样式yàng shìtype; style
• 样品yàng pǐnsample; specimen
• 样本yàng běnsample; specimen
• 样样yàng yàngall kinds
• 样板yàng bǎntemplate; prototype; model
• 样板戏yàng bǎn xìmodel theater (operas and ballets produced during the Cultural Revolution)
• 样机yàng jīprototype
• 样单yàng dānsample sheet; form; (computing) stylesheet
• 样例yàng lìsample; model; example
• 样章yàng zhāngsample chapter
• 样张yàng zhāng(printing) proof; specimen page; sample photograph; (fashion design) pattern sheet
• 样条函数yàng tiáo hán shùspline function (math.)
• 样貌yàng màoappearance; manifestation
• 样儿yàng rsee 样子

Words containing 样

• 这样zhè yàngthis way; like this; so; (before a noun) this kind of; such
• 一样yī yàngsame; like; equal to
• 怎么样zěn me yànghow?; how about?; how was it?
• 那样nà yàngthat kind; that sort
• 怎样zěn yànghow; what kind
• 同样tóng yàngsame; equal; similar; similarly; also; too
• 模样mú yànglook; style; appearance
• 照样zhào yàngas before; (same) as usual; in the same manner
• 榜样bǎng yàngmodel; example (for people to follow); (in reference to a person) role model
• 什么样shén me yàngwhat kind?; what sort?
• 各种各样gè zhǒng gè yàngvarious kinds; all sorts
• 字样zì yàngmodel or template character; written slogan or phrase…
• 花样huā yàngpattern; way of doing sth; trick
• 两样liǎng yàngnot the same; different
• 一模一样yī mú yī yàng(idiom) exactly alike; identical; also pr. yī mó yī yàng
• 这样一来zhè yàng yī láithus; if this happens then
• 看样子kàn yàng ziit seems; it looks as if
• 异样yì yàngdifference; peculiar
• 各式各样gè shì gè yàng(of) all kinds and sorts; various
• 多样duō yàngdiverse; diversity; manifold
• 不管怎样bù guǎn zěn yàngin any case; no matter what
• 不怎么样bù zěn me yàngnot up to much; very indifferent; nothing great about it
• 式样shì yàngstyle
• 像样xiàng yàngpresentable; decent; up to par

Characters built on 羊

These share the phonetic component 羊 (yáng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 洋yángocean; vast; foreign
• 氧yǎngoxygen (chemistry)
• 痒yǎngto itch; to tickle
• 烊yángmolten; smelt
• 徉yángto walk back and forth
• 佯yángto feign; to pretend
• 羰tāngcarbonyl (radical)
• 蛘yánga weevil found in rice etc

Characters that look like 样

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 排páito arrange in order; to line up; to exclude; to eliminate; to repel; to expel…
• 掉diàoto fall; to drop; to lag behind
• 梯tī(bound form) ladder; stairs
• 株zhūtree trunk; stump (tree root); a plant
• 桦huà(botany) birch (genus Betula)
• 猝cùabruptly; suddenly; unexpectedly

Sounds the same

Read yàng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 漾to overflow; to ripple; used in place names
• 恙sickness
• 怏discontented
• 瀁ripples
• 鞅wooden yoke for a draft ox