1. 如
if, supposing; as if; like, as
The corpus record — Literary Chinese
如
rú
if, supposing; as if; like, as
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Where it lives
- Analects (Lunyu) 154 · 96.11/10k
- Mencius 152 · 42.86/10k
- Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 33 · 18.76/10k
- Zhuangzi, Inner Chapters 21 · 15.24/10k
What it meant — Unihan character definitions
2. رU
rU 3 ~f.j (fIijwOB) LH fIaB, OCM *na1 'Soft' [Chuci] looks like a Chil dialect variant of rou (under --'; roul *). Alterna- ru ruo *' tively, it may actually belong to -> are closely related notions, see -> ren 2 'swallow, eat' as 'eat' > 'chew' and 'soft' For potential allofams, see -> rou 1 — [Schuessler, s.v. rU, p. 467]
In the wild
- 如 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十三章
- 如 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十三章
- 如 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 二十章
- 如 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 二十章
- 如 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 二十章
- 如 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 二十章
6 of 360 attestations shown.
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