(sì) - similar to, like; seemingly in Mandarin
sìTraditional: 似
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Translation
similar to, like; seemingly
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the person radical 亻gives the meaning and 以 (yǐ) carries the sound, used for resembling or being similar.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 亻 (person radical) + 以 (yǐ, phonetic)
Stroke order
似
Examples
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He seems tired.
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These two people look very similar.
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The situation seems not great.
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The situation seems to be improving.
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His voice sounds vaguely familiar.
似 (sì) means similar or seemingly; with 乎 it forms 似乎 (sìhū), it seems that.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 似.
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