| xiàng | direction/orientation/to face/to turn toward/to/towards/shortly before/formerly/to side with/to be partial to/all along (previously)/surname Xiang |
| 向 | surname Xiang |
| 向上 | upward up to advance |
| 向上地 | up upward upwards |
| 向上爬 | make a career |
| 向上的 | upward; uphill; upcast; onward; pout; ascending; antrorse; up; skywards; upturned; upwards; skyward; uptrend; epitropic |
| 向下 | down downward |
| 向下地 | katadromically |
| 向下弯曲 | deflexibility; deflex; downwarping |
| 向下流的 | defluent |
| 向下的 | down; downward; descensive; retrorse; decurrent; descending; downcast; deorsum |
| 向东 | eastwards |
| 向东方 | orientation; east; upalong |
| 向中 | mesad; mediad |
| 向中心 | inby; centrad; inwardly |
| 向何处 | whither |
| 向例 | custom usual practice convention up to now |
| 向光性 | phototropism; positive phototaxis; phototaxy; phototaxis; positive phototropism |
| 向内 | entad; into; inward; intro; inwardly |
| 向内弯曲 | fell home; introflexion; incurve; incurvate; negative camber; necked-in; inflect; incurvation |
| 向内的 | inward; upcountry |