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likeness
Stroke count: 6

Readings

On readingジョ、ニョ
Kun readingごと.し

Meanings

  1. likenessRtK
    人生夢の如し。Life is but an empty dream.tatoeba
    彼は実に如才ない男だ。He certainly is smart.tatoeba
  2. like
  3. such as
  4. as if
  5. better
  6. best
  7. equal
  1. tathata (the ultimate nature of all things)

Popular Usage

如何如何に如何にも

Radicals and components

Radical女woman
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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woman (女) · mouth (口)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 104

Compound words

成功するかどうかは、君自身の努力の如何による。
Whether you will succeed or not depends upon your own exertions.tatoeba
人生夢の如し。
Life is but an empty dream.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

三十六計逃げるに如かず
さんじゅうろっけいにげるにしかずOf the thirty-six stratagems, running away is the best.
かくの如き世界がポイエシスの世界である。
かくのごときせかいがぽいえしすのせかいである。Such a world is the world of poiesis.
科学と哲学との区別は、普通に次の如く理解されている。
かがくとてつがくとのくべつは、ふつうにつぎのごとくりかいされている。The distinction between science and philosophy is ordinarily understood as follows.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

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Practice Writing

Practice Writing 如

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