如
Meanings
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- 1.as
- 2.as if
- 3.such as
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Wiktionary
- 1.to be like; as; as if; as though
- 2.to comply with; to agree with; to fit
- 3.such as; for example; for instance
- 4.to be as good as; to be comparable to
- 5.than; more than
- 6.if; supposing
- 7.postposition indicating an appearance, a state, or a condition; having the characteristic of
- 8.you
- 9.a surname
- 10.to go to
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *nja, *njas): phonetic 女 (OC *naʔ, *nas, “woman”) + semantic 口 (“mouth”). The phonetic component can also be interpreted ideographically as suggesting a woman obeying an order. Sino-Tibetan; compare Mru [script needed] (na, “to be so”), Mizo na nâ nâ (“it being so; since”) (Schuessler, 2007). Also compare Old Mon [script needed] (ñaṅ, “resembling; like”) (ibid.). Derivations include 若 (OC *nja, *njaʔ, *njaɡ, “as if”) (by the distributive suffix *-k), 諾 (OC *naːɡ, “to agree; to say yes”), and 然 (OC *njen, “so; thus; like this”) (by a demonstrative suffix *-n) (Schuessler, 2007).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
你如願以償了嗎?
Did you get your wish?
他終於如願以償了。
He finally got his wish.
雄辯如銀，沉默如金。
Speech is silver, but silence is golden.
如无必要我也不会打的。
I don't use taxis unless it's absolutely necessary.
生活并不总是如我们所愿。
Life doesn't always go the way we want it to.
事情没能如他所愿让他感到失望。
He was disappointed that things didn't turn out as he'd hoped.
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