似

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

similar

HSK 3 N2

Communication →Language

shì, sì

ジ

に.る、ひ.る

사

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 以 represents the sound.

Components

亻 person (side)+ 以 by means of =

似 similar

亻 Meaning component

rén person (side)

亻 is a component form of 人.

以 Phonetic component

yǐ by means of

old variant of 以[yǐ]

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Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

似

Regular

Modern

Chinese

似 [shì]

see 似的[shìde]

似 [sì]

to seem; to appear; to resemble; similar; -like; pseudo-; (more) than

Japanese

似に同音

suffix looking like (someone); taking after (either of one's parents)

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (1)

あの男の子は父親似だ。

That boy takes after his father.

Japanese Names

似あゆ

Ayu female given name

CHINESE WORDS (69)

似曾相识 [sìcéngxiāngshí] #13,034

déjà vu (the experience of seeing exactly the same situation a second time)

似曾相识 [sìcéngxiāngshí] #13,034

déjà vu (the experience of seeing exactly the same situation a second time)

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JAPANESE WORDS (122)

well-matched (esp. of a couple)

⭐ 真似る [まねる] #10,219

to mimic

似つかわしい [につかわしい] #12,969

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KOREAN WORDS (6)

사이비 #41,998

being pseudo; being quasi