如 - Mandarin word #5038

如

rú

Traditional: 如

#5038 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

if; like, as (in 如果, 如何, 如此)

Stroke order

如

雨yǔ，。

If it rains, I won't go.

？

How do you plan to handle it?

？

How did things get so bad?

般bān。

Time passes like water.

春chūn风fēng温wēn暖nuǎn。

His words are warm like a spring breeze.

如 (rú) is a bound morpheme meaning if, like, or as. Modern Mandarin keeps it mostly in fixed compounds: 如果 (if), 如何 (how), and 如此 (like this, so).

如此

like this, in this way, so, such

如果

if, in case

如何

how, in what way (formal)

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 如.

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This word is part of lesson 101.