如
rú HSK2

be like

如 rú
if conjunctionpreposition
(literary) if; supposing; same as 如果 rú​guǒ

如有需要，请留言。

rú yǒu xū​yào, qǐng liú yán.

Please leave a message if needed.

如天气不好，不要去。

rú tiān​qì bù​hǎo, bù​yào qù.

If the weather is bad, do not go.

to be like preposition
to be like; to be similar to; as if

他爸爸和我亲如兄弟。

tā bà​ba hé wǒ qīn rú xiōng​dì.

His father and I were like brothers.

希望明天如今天一样美好。

xī​wàng míng​tiān rú jīn​tiān yī​yàng měi​hǎo.

I hope tomorrow is as wonderful as today.

such as preposition
for example; such as

当我们睡觉时，身体会修复受损细胞，如皮肤细胞。

dāng wǒ​men shuì jiào shí, shēn​tǐ huì xiū​fù shòu​sǔn xì​bāo, rú pí​fū xì​bāo.

When we sleep, the body repairs damaged cells, like skin cells.

一些因素，如年龄，不能改变。

yī​xiē yīn​sù, rú nián​líng, bù​néng gǎi​biàn.

Some factors like age cannot be changed.

to follow preposition
to follow; to be in accordance with; according to

愿我学会接受我自己，如我所是。

yuàn wǒ xué huì jiē​shòu wǒ zì​jǐ, rú wǒ suǒ shì.

May I learn to accept myself as I am.

to measure up to verbadverb
to measure up to; to be equal to; usually used in the negative to mean not as good as
[state] adjective
(literary) used as a suffix to adjectives or adverbs to describe a state or manner, similar to 然 rán
than
(literary) used to introduce the object of a comparison, meaning "than"
to go to
(literary) to go to; to head toward
surname
a Chinese surname

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See

Frequency
Character
Written text
67th most common 2320.6 per million
Movie subtitles
73rd most common 2414.6 per million appears in 100% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
171.3 per million appears in 49% of films
Written text
440.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+5982

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)