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似

shì, sì

resemble

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

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

以 sound component

以  Sound component

yǐ

  

by means of

Evolution

似 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
似 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
似 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
似 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

似  

shì

resemble, similar to; as if, seem; see 似的[shì​de]

似  

sì

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

似 (佀) 

sì

old variant of 似[sì]

Most common words with 似
Freq.
Word
Meaning

似乎

apparently

似的

seems as if

类似

similar

似

to seem

相似

to resemble

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*sə.ləʔ

ziX

sì

resemble


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 58.5135% of movies

789th most common character in movies

431st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+4F3C

Shuowen

“似，象也。从人，聲。”


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