印象

Character by character

• 印yìn6 strokesHSK 2print, seal, stamp, chop, mark
• 象xiàng12 strokesHSK 3elephant; ivory; figure, image

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 第一印象很重要。

  Dì yī yìn xiàng hěn zhòng yào

  First impressions matter.

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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 印象. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 想象xiǎng xiàngHSK 4

  to imagine; to envision; imagination

• 对象duì xiàngHSK 3

  target; object; partner; boyfriend; girlfriend

• 印yìnHSK 6

  to print; to mark; to engrave; a seal; a print; a stamp; a mark; a trace; image

• 形象xíng xiàngHSK 3

  image; form; figure; visualization; vivid

• 现象xiàn xiàngHSK 3

  phenomenon; appearance

• 迹象jì xiàngHSK 7

  sign; indication; mark; indicator

• 象征xiàng zhēngHSK 5

  emblem; symbol; token; badge; to symbolize; to signify; to stand for

• 气象qì xiàngHSK 5

  meteorological feature; meteorology; atmosphere; ambience; scene

• 景象jǐng xiàngHSK 5

  scene; sight (to behold)

• 打印dǎ yìnHSK 2

  to affix a seal; to stamp; to print out (with a printer)

• 大象dà xiàngHSK 5

  elephant

• 印刷yìn shuāHSK 5

  to print; printing

• 抽象chōu xiàngHSK 7

  abstract; abstraction

• 脚印jiǎo yìnHSK 6

  footprint

• 复印fù yìnHSK 3

  to photocopy; to duplicate a document

• 打印机dǎ yìn jīHSK 6

  printer

• 象棋xiàng qí

  Chinese chess

• 印章yìn zhāngHSK 7

  seal; signet; chop; stamp

• 印证yìn zhèngHSK 7

  to confirm; to corroborate; to verify; proof; evidence

• 印刷术yìn shuā shùHSK 7

  printing; printing technology

• 难以想象nányǐxiǎngxiàngHSK 7

  Unimaginable