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似

似

似 U+4F3C, 似
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F3C
← 伻
[U+4F3B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 伽 →
[U+4F3D]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

似 (radical 9 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人女戈人 (OVIO), four-corner 28200, composition ⿰亻以)

References

  • KangXi: page 97, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 485
  • Dae Jaweon: page 205, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 127, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+4F3C

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 似

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 似
Bronze inscriptions

b12336

b12337

b12338

b12339

b12340

b12341

b12342

b12343

b12344

b12345

b12346

b12347

b12348

b12349

b12350

b12351
Large seal script

L34166

L13771
Small seal script

s05799
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (以) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
似 *ljɯʔ
姒 *ljɯʔ
耜 *ljɯʔ
佀 *ljɯʔ
以 *lɯʔ
苡 *lɯʔ
苢 *lɯʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ljɯʔ) : semantic 亻 ‎(“person”) + phonetic 以 ‎(OC *lɯʔ) – resemblance between people.

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 似
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 邪 (17)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 詳里切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /zɨX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /zɨX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /zieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /zɨX/
Li
Rong		 /ziəX/
Wang
Li		 /zĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ziX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 sì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 似
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 sì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ziX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*sə.ləʔ/
English resemble

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 似
Reading # 1/1
No. 14925
Phonetic
component		 以
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 似
Old
Chinese		 /*ljɯʔ/
Notes 說文做佀金文從臺

Definitions

似

  1. like, resembling
    類似 / 类似  ―  lèisì  ―  similar; similar to
    相似  ―  xiāngsì  ―  similar
  2. Used in conjunction with another adjective in a comparison that the first object/person is in a better position than the second.
    他的點子真多，一個好似一個。 [MSC, trad.]
    他的点子真多，一个好似一个。 [MSC, simp.]
    Tā de diǎnzi zhēn duō, yīge hǎosì yīge. [Pinyin]
    He has so many ideas, each one better than the next.
  3. as if; it seems that...
    似乎  ―  sìhū  ―  as if

References

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

似

  1. Only used in 似的 (shìde, “like”).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

似

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. becoming
  2. resemble
  3. counterfeit
  4. imitate
  5. suitable

Readings

Korean

Hanja

似 • ‎(sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

似 (tự, tợ, tựa, từa)

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References

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