如 (rú)
if/as/like
How 如 is written
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 女 — woman
- Traditional
- 如
- Simplified
- 如 (unchanged)
Common words using 如
- 如何 rúhé
- how; what way; what
- 如果 rúguǒ
- if; in case; in the event that
- 如此 rúcǐ
- in this way; so
- 一如既往 yīrújìwǎng
- just as in the past (idiom); as before; continuing as always
- 不如 bùrú
- not equal to; not as good as; inferior to
- 例如 lìrú
- for example; for instance; such as
- 假如 jiǎrú
- if
- 如下 rúxià
- as follows
- 如今 rújīn
- nowadays; now
- 如來 rúlái
- tathagata (Buddha's name for himself, having many layers of meaning - Sanskrit: thus gone, having been Brahman, gone to the absolute etc)
- 如同 rútóng
- like; as
- 如意 rúyì
- as one wants; according to one's wishes
如 in a sentence
如果你有空，我們去喝咖啡。
Rúguǒ nǐ yǒukòng, wǒmen qù hē kāfēi.
“If you have time, let's go drink coffee.”
How common is 如?
如 is the 67th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 34.9% of all running text.
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