174a) 家

jia

home, family; -ist

house 宀¹⁴¹[mián] + pig 豕 [shǐ]

Combination of house (宀) and pig (豕) which gives plentiful birth. It came to mean a family. This character shows a kind of Chinese humor in favor of prolificacy. 

174b) 象

xiang

elephant; shape

head with long nose  [symbol] + pig 豕 [shǐ]

An elephant has a head with long nose (symbol) and a fat body (豕) like a pig. Also means shape as an elephant was more of an exotic imaginary creature to the people of the northern China 

174c) 像

xiang

image; be/look like

person 亻⁷⁰[rén] + elephant 象 [xiàng]

Ancient Chinese people (亻) could only imagine how a shape of an elephant (象) would look like. The meaning of ‘likeness’ is also derived from the similar shape of an image of an elephant