似
sìshì HSK3

resemble

似 sì frequency
seem adverb
to appear to be or give the impression of

他似有所悟地打量着我。

tā sì yǒu suǒ wù de dǎ​liang zhe wǒ.

He looked me over as if he had suddenly understood something.

than verb
used in comparisons to indicate a degree surpassing something

孩子们的歌声一个赛似一个。

hái​zi men de gē​shēng yī gè sài sì yī gè.

The children's singing voices were each more beautiful than the last.

似 shì
like particle
used in the word 似的 shì​de

他高兴得跟过年似的。

tā gāo​xìng de gēn guò​nián shì de.

He was as happy as a kid at Christmas.

Frequency
Character
Written text
431st most common 506.7 per million
Movie subtitles
789th most common 160.0 per million appears in 59% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
6.74 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
62.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+4F3C

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