似乎
sì hū 4–1
it seems; seemingly; as if
- Characters
- 2
- 似 · 乎
- Syllables
- 2
- sì hū
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 997
Part of speech: d
Character by character
- 似sì6 strokesHSK 3resemble, similar to; as if, seem
- 乎hū5 strokesHSK 3interrogative or exclamatory final particle
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Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 似乎. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 几乎jī hūHSK 4
almost; nearly; practically
- 类似lèi sìHSK 3
similar; analogous
- 似的shì deHSK 4
seems as if; rather like; Taiwan pr. [sì de]
- 在乎zài huHSK 4
to care about; equivalent of 在于
- 相似xiāng sìHSK 3
similar; alike
- 不在乎bù zài huHSK 4
not to care
- 看似kàn sìHSK 7
to look as if; to seem
- 好似hǎo sìHSK 6
to seem; to be like
- 合乎hé hūHSK 7
to accord with; to conform to
- 似曾相识sì céng xiāng shíHSK 7
déjà vu (the experience of seeing exactly the same situation a second time); seemingly familiar; apparently already acquainted
- 不亦乐乎bù yì lè hūHSK 7
lit. isn't that a joy? (quote from Confucius); fig. (jocular) extremely; awfully
- 酷似kù sìHSK 7
to strikingly resemble
- 似是而非sì shì ér fēiHSK 7
apparently right but actually wrong; specious (idiom)