相反
xiāng fǎnㄒㄧㄤ ㄈㄢˇ
Sino-Vietnamese: TƯƠNG PHẢN
Traditional: 相反
HSK 4HSK 3.0 · 4TOCFL 3
Meaning(verb, verbal noun)
opposite; contrary
Can open a clause as a connector: 相反，…… (on the contrary…).
Examples
我们的看法正好相反。
wǒ men de kàn fǎ zhèng hǎo xiāng fǎn.
Our views are exactly opposite.
他没生气，相反，他很高兴。
tā méi shēng qì, xiāng fǎn, tā hěn gāo xìng.
He wasn't angry — on the contrary, he was happy.
你走反了，车站在相反的方向。
nǐ zǒu fǎn le, chē zhàn zài xiāng fǎn de fāng xiàng.
You're going the wrong way, the station is in the opposite direction.
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Stroke order
TƯƠNG · 9 strokes
PHẢN · 4 strokes
contrary; in reverse; inside out or upside down; to reverse; to return; to oppose; opposite; against; anti-; to rebel; to use analogy; instead; abbr. for 切 phonetic system
Related words
- 相信 xiāng xìn — to be convinced (that sth is true); to believe; to accept sth as true
- 相同 xiāng tóng — identical; same
- 照相机 zhào xiàng jī — camera
- 互相 hù xiāng — each other; mutually; mutual
- 相当 xiāng dāng — equivalent to; appropriate; considerably; to a certain extent; fairly; quite
- 相关 xiāng guān — related; relevant; pertinent; to be interrelated; (statistics) correlation
- 相对 xiāng duì — relatively; opposite; to resist; to oppose; relative; vis-a-vis; counterpart
- 相处 xiāng chǔ — to be in contact (with sb); to associate; to interact; to get along (well, poorly)