形状

Character by character

• 形xíng7 strokesHSK 3form, shape, appearance
• 状zhuàng7 strokesHSK 3 traditional 狀form; appearance; shape; official

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

Example sentences

• 那片云是鱼的形状。

  Nà piàn yún shì yú de xíng zhuàng

  That cloud is in the shape of a fish.

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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 形状. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 状态zhuàng tàiHSK 3

  condition; state; state of affairs

• 状况zhuàng kuàngHSK 3

  condition; state; situation

• 形象xíng xiàngHSK 3

  image; form; figure; visualization; vivid

• 形成xíng chéngHSK 3

  to form; to take shape

• 形式xíng shìHSK 3

  outer appearance; form; shape; formality

• 症状zhèng zhuàngHSK 6

  symptom (of an illness)

• 形xíngHSK 6

  to appear; to look; form; shape

• 形势xíng shìHSK 4

  circumstances; situation; terrain

• 情形qíng xingHSK 5

  circumstances; situation

• 形容xíng róngHSK 4

  to describe; (literary) countenance; appearance

• 现状xiàn zhuàngHSK 5

  current situation

• 变形biàn xíngHSK 6

  to become deformed; to change shape; to morph

• 形态xíng tàiHSK 5

  shape; form; pattern; morphology

• 隐形yǐn xíngHSK 7

  invisible

• 外形wài xíngHSK 7

  figure; shape; external form; contour

• 畸形jī xíngHSK 7

  deformity; abnormality

• 无形wú xíngHSK 7

  incorporeal; virtual; formless; invisible (assets); intangible

• 圆形yuán xíngHSK 7

  round; circular

• 地形dì xíngHSK 5

  topography; terrain; landform

• 图形tú xíngHSK 7

  picture; figure; diagram; graph; depiction; graphical

• 队形duì xíngHSK 7

  formation

• 形形色色xíng xíng sè sèHSK 7

  all kinds of; all sorts of; every (different) kind of

• 告状gào zhuàngHSK 7

  to tell on sb; to complain (to a teacher, a superior etc); to bring a lawsuit

• 状元zhuàng yuánHSK 7

  top scorer in the palace examination (highest rank of the Imperial examination system); see 眼 and 花; top scorer in college entrance examination 考; (fig.) the most brilliantly talented person in the field; leading light