相似
xiāng sìㄒㄧㄤ ㄙˋ
Sino-Vietnamese: TƯƠNG TỰ
Traditional: 相似
HSK 5HSK 3.0 · 5TOCFL 4
Meaning(adjective)
similar; alike
Examples
这两个字很相似。
zhè liǎng gè zì hěn xiāng sì.
These two characters look very similar.
越南菜和中国菜有相似的地方。
yuè nán cài hé zhōng guó cài yǒu xiāng shì de dì fang.
Vietnamese and Chinese food have things in common.
我们俩的经历很相似。
wǒ men liǎ de jīng lì hěn xiāng sì.
The two of us have had similar experiences.
Easily confused
- 类似 — 类似 can directly modify nouns (类似问题); 相似 is usually a predicate: A和B很相似.
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Stroke order
TƯƠNG · 9 strokes
TỰ · 6 strokes
to seem; to appear; to resemble; similar
Related words
- 相信 xiāng xìn — to be convinced (that sth is true); to believe; to accept sth as true
- 相同 xiāng tóng — identical; same
- 照相机 zhào xiàng jī — camera
- 互相 hù xiāng — each other; mutually; mutual
- 相反 xiāng fǎn — opposite; contrary
- 相当 xiāng dāng — equivalent to; appropriate; considerably; to a certain extent; fairly; quite
- 相关 xiāng guān — related; relevant; pertinent; to be interrelated; (statistics) correlation
- 相对 xiāng duì — relatively; opposite; to resist; to oppose; relative; vis-a-vis; counterpart