| xíng | to appear/to look/form/shape |
| 形 | to appear to look form |
| 形上 | metaphysics |
| 形丑心善 | an ugly face may hide a virtuous heart (idiom) |
| 形于色 | to show one's feelings to show it in one's face |
| 形于辞色 | show in one's words and expression |
| 形似 | be similar in shape |
| 形体 | form and structure |
| 形像 | form image |
| 形制 | structure; design |
| 形势 | circumstances situation terrain |
| 形势严峻 | in grave difficulties the situation is grim |
| 形势吃紧 | The situation was critical. |
| 形势逼人 | the situation demands immediate action |
| 形单影只 | solitary |
| 形单影孤 | Solitary. |
| 形变 | deformation bending |
| 形变作用 | deformation effect |
| 形变热处理 | ausform; marworking; thermomechanical treatment; ausforming; TMT |
| 形同虚设 | to exist in name only empty shell useless (idiom) |
| 形声 | ideogram plus phonetic (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) also known as phonogram, phonetic compound or picto-phonetic character |