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照相

zhào xiàng

HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word

照相 (zhào xiàng) means "to take a photo". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 照相 means

1. to take a photograph

The characters in 照相

• 照zhàoaccording to; in accordance with; to shine
• 相xiāngeach other; one another; mutually

Example sentences

• 你有照相机吗？
  Do you have a camera?
• 这是我的照相机。
  This is my camera.
• 请你帮我照相好吗？
  Qǐng nǐ bāng wǒ zhàoxiàng hǎo ma?
  Would you please take my picture?
• 我可以帮你照相吗？
  Wǒ kěyǐ bāng nǐ zhàoxiàng ma?
  May I take your picture?
• 我的照相机是防水的。
  My camera is waterproof.
• 你在哪儿修的照相机？
  Where did you get your camera repaired?

Words starting with 照相

• 照相机zhào xiàng jīcamera
• 照相馆zhào xiàng guǎnphoto studio
• 照相排版zhào xiàng pái bǎnphototypesetting; photocomposition

Words containing 照相

• 数码照相机shù mǎ zhào xiàng jīdigital camera
• 正电子发射断层照相术zhèng diàn zǐ fā shè duàn céng zhào xiāng shùpositron emission tomography (PET)

Sounds the same

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

• 照像variant of 照相

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhào xiàng correctly.
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