如

如 (radical 38, 女+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 女口 (VR), four-corner 4640₀, composition ⿰女口)

• 侞, 𢘾, 𫼰, 洳, 𬍣, 𥆃, 𥞚, 𦀌, 袽, 銣(铷), 𨚴, 𬷑, 茹, 㾒, 筎, 𩂰, 𬼤, 𭄥, 帤, 𭚯, 恕, 挐, 桇, 𤈟, 𤥏, 𤯥, 𥙦, 㖲, 𥹡, 絮, 𧊟, 䘫, 𧧏, 𨦔, 𨾵, 𩶯, 鴽(𫛪), 𩴿

• KangXi: page 255, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6060
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1025, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5982

Historical forms of the character 如
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意)  and phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *nja, *njas) : phonetic 女 (OC *naʔ, *nas, “woman”) + semantic 口 (“mouth”) – a woman obeying an order.

Sino-Tibetan; compare Mru [script needed] (na, “to be so”), Mizo na nâ nâ (“it being so; since”) (Schuessler, 2007). Also compare Old Mon [script needed] (ñaṅ, “resembling; like”) (ibid.).

如

1. to be like; as; as if; as though

   • 神啊，我的心切慕你，如鹿切慕溪水。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

     From: 新標點和合本 (Chinese Union Version with New Punctuation), 詩篇 (Psalm) 42:1

     Shén a, wǒ de xīn qièmù nǐ, rú lù qièmù xīshuǐ. [Pinyin]

     As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

2. to comply with; to agree with; to fit
3. such as; for example; for instance
4. (usually in the negative) to be as good as; to be comparable to
5. more ... than
6. if; supposing

   作者水平有限，如有錯漏，望大家指正。 [MSC, trad.]
   作者水平有限，如有错漏，望大家指正。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zuòzhě shuǐpíng yǒuxiàn, rú yǒu cuòlòu, wàng dàjiā zhǐzhèng. [Pinyin]

   The author's ability has its limits; feedback regarding errors and omissions is welcome.

7. ^† Suffix placed after adjectives or adverbs to indicate the state of a thing or action.
8. A surname​.

May be related to 向 (OC *hljaŋs, *hlaŋs, “to face; to turn towards”) (Schuessler, 2007).

如

1. ^† to go to

   如廁 / 如厕  ―  rúcè  ―  to go to the toilet

   • 鄭伯如周，始朝桓王也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     郑伯如周，始朝桓王也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, circa 4^th century BCE

     Zhèng bó rú zhōu, shǐ cháo huánwáng yě. [Pinyin]

     Duke Zheng went to Zhou, and had an audience with King Huan of Zhou for the first time.

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00885
• “如”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. likeness; such as; to seem; as if

• Go-on: にょ (nyo, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: じょ (jo, Jōyō)
• Kun: ごとく (gotoku, 如く); しく (shiku, 如く)
• Nanori: ゆ (yu); ゆき (yuki)

• 如 (ど)何 (う) (dō) / 如何 (いかが) (ikaga): in what manner; how

From Middle Chinese 如 (MC ȵɨʌ, “as if; as though”).

• On’yomi: Goon
  • IPA^(key): [ɲ̟o̞]

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • IPA^(key): [d͡ʑo̞]

如 • (yeo)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 여 (revised: yeo, McCune–Reischauer: yŏ)
  • Name (hangeul): 같을

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如: Hán Việt readings: như (人(nhân)諸(chư)切(thiết))[1][2][3]
如: Nôm readings: nhơ[1][2][3][4], như[1][2], nhờ[1][2], nha[1], nhừ[3], dừ[3], rừ[3]

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