向, a pictographic character of a North facing window, serves as semantic component to form characters. The characters formed by the phonetic component 向 share vowels iang and ang.
In modern Chinese 向 means:
1.to guide; to direct; to lead
2.to lean toward; to be inclined toward
3 the direction
4.to face; to turn towards
5.all along; hitherto
Characters formed by the phonetic component 向
响 饷/餉 晑 xiǎng
晌 垧 扄 shǎng
珦 姠 嚮 xiàng
恦 shàng