Hanja Analyzer
似

似 — sa

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
닮을 사
Romanization
sa
English
resemble, similar to; as if, seem
Mandarin
sì
Japanese on'yomi
ジ, シ
Japanese kun'yomi
に.る ひ.る
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 5
Newspaper frequency
#923 of 2,500
Strokes
6
Variant forms
佀
Radical
人 (9, 5 residual)
Unicode
U+4F3C

Parts that make up 似

  • 亻 사람 인variant of 人 옆에서 본 사람사람과 사람이 하는 일, 사람의 됨됨이
  • 以 써 이 무엇을 들고 가는 사람써. ‘이’ 계열의 소리

How 似 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 似 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 人, 以.

Korean example words with 似

  • 혐사嫌似 Korean gloss: 의심스러워할 만함. 또는 그런 점
  • 근사하다近似 Korean gloss: 거의 같다
  • 방사하다倣似 Korean gloss: 매우 비슷하다
  • 극사하다極似 Korean gloss: 몹시 닮아서 비슷하다
  • 형사하다形似 Korean gloss: 형체가 서로 비슷하다
  • 흡사恰似 Korean gloss: 거의 같을 정도로 비슷한 모양
  • 근사성近似性 Korean gloss: 거의 같은 특성
  • 유사점類似點 Korean gloss: 서로 비슷한 점
  • 유사성類似性 Korean gloss: 서로 비슷한 성질
  • 유사어類似語 Korean gloss: 의미가 서로 비슷한 말
  • 유사작類似作 Korean gloss: 어떤 작품과 비슷한 작품
  • 유사품類似品 Korean gloss: 어떤 다른 물건과 비슷한 물품

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 似

  • 似顔にがお portrait; likeness
  • 類似るいじ resemblance; similarity; likeness
  • 疑似ぎじ pseudo; quasi; false
  • 酷似こくじ resembling closely; being strikingly similar; bearing a strong likeness
  • 似通うにかよう to resemble closely
  • 似合うにあう to suit; to match; to become
  • 似合わしいにあわしい well-matched; suitable; becoming
  • 似るにる to resemble; to look like; to be like
  • 似合いにあい well-matched (esp. of a couple); becoming; suitable
  • 似せるにせる to copy; to imitate; to counterfeit
  • 似つかわしいにつかわしい suitable; appropriate; becoming
  • 真似まね imitating; copying; mimicry

Other hanja read “사”

Other hanja with radical 人

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