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A Chinese Talking Syllabary of the Cantonese Dialect
N(1)  The elephant: 巨象 a big elephant;
象齒焚身 an elephant is killed because of its ivory－warning against hoarding wealth.
(2)  A figure, image (interch. 像): 造象 statue;
肖象，圖象，畫象 (more commonly wr. 像) portrait.
(3)  Material form, atmosphere, appearance: 形象 shape, material form: 意象 idea, concept;
氣象 atmosphere;
莊嚴氣象 august atmosphere or appearance;
萬象 all the universe;
天象 meteorological phenomena;
觀象臺 observatory;
景象 gen. appearance or atmosphere;
太平景象 atmosphere or peace;
現象 phenomenon, -na, present conditions;
印象 impression (of person, country).
(4)  Ivory (used as n. modifier): 象箸 ivory chopsticks;
象 ivory tablets;
象床 ivory bed;
象環 ivory ring, etc., see 象牙 [xiang4ya2]↓.
Words1.象鼻蟲 [xiang4bi2chong2], n., the weevil, the snout beetle. 
2.象棋 [xiang4qi2], n., Chin. chess. 
3.象闕 [xiang4qUe4], n., (AC) palace gate. 
4.象度 [xiang4du4], n., measurements of movements of heavenly bodies. 
5.象服 [xiang4fu2], n., (AC) ladies’ formal dress. 
6.象管 [xiang4guan3], n., ivory flute. 
7.象笏 [xiang4hu4], n., ivory memorial tablet held during imperial audience. 
8.象徵 [xiang4zheng1], n., symbol; 象徵主義 symbolism in poetry, painting; 象徵的 symbolic. 
9.象 [xiang4jian3], n., see [xiang4hu4]↑. 
10.象輦 [xiang4nian3], n., (AC) carriage of empress dowager drawn by elephant. 
11.象皮病 [xiang4pi2bing4], n., (med.) elephantiasis. 
12.象人 [xiang4ren2], n., (AC) idol, wooden image. 
13.象限 [xiang4xian4], n., (geom.) quadrant. 
14.象刑 [xiang4xing2]1, n., (AC) convict dress, a dress of disgrace. 
15.象形 [xiang4xing2]2, n., in 象形文字 hieroglyphics, pictograph; one of the earliest principles of Chin. character creation, limited to picturing visible forms. 
16.象數 [xiang4shu4], n., the study of the eight diagrams (八卦) in Book of Changes (易經); 象 the diagrams, and 數 position of strokes (upper, lower, etc.); see [xiang4ci2]↓. 
17.象辭 [xiang4ci2], n., one of the Comments in the Book of Changes, explaining meaning of combination of diagrams forming an oracle. 
18.象眼 [xiang4yan3], n., as in 斜象眼兒 an oblong quadrangle. 
19.象牙 [xiang4ya2], n., ivory: 象牙之塔 the ivory tower; 象牙筷子 ivory chopsticks; 象牙床 ivory bed (shortened to 象 in AC, see N.4↑); 狗嘴長不出象牙 you don’t find ivory in a dog’s mouth－contemptuous of person's filthy remarks; 象牙海岸 (Republic of) Ivory Coast; 象牙質 dentine. 
20.象意 [xiang4yi4]1, n., see 會 意 81.41, one of the principles of character formation. 
21.象譯 [xiang4yi4]2, n., (AC) interpreter of languages of South China.