如

like, as; if

No. 89 most used · 0.27% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 372.

How it's built

• 女woman
• 口mouth

A way to remember it

A mouth (口) that goes along with a woman (女): just like her.

Words

• 如果

  rú guǒ

  if; in case; in the event that
• 如何

  rú hé

  how; what way; what
• 如此

  rú cǐ

  like this; so; such
• 不如

  bù rú

  not equal to; not as good as; inferior to; it would be better to
• 比如

  bǐ rú

  for example; for instance; such as
• 如今

  rú jīn

  nowadays; now

Sentences

• 你的生意进展如何？

  nǐ de shēng yì jìn zhǎn rú hé

  How is your business going?
• 她在数学上不如他。

  tā zài shù xué shàng bù rú tā

  She is inferior to him in math.
• 这正如我想的一样。

  zhè zhèng rú wǒ xiǎng de yí yàng

  It was just as I thought.
• 我不知道如何使用它。

  wǒ bù zhī dào rú hé shǐ yòng tā

  I do not know how to use it.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.