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如rú初chū

  1. as before; as ever

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

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2
如
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

as, as if, such as

Pinyin
rú
Strokes
6
Frequency
1252 of 2500
Words starting with 如Words ending in 如Anywhere in a word
初
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

(bound form) at first; initially, (bound form) first; early, (bound form) (in lunar calendar dates, before numerals 1–10) days 1 to 10 of a month, as in 初三[chu1 san1] "the third"

Pinyin
chū
Strokes
7
Frequency
5643 of 2500
Words starting with 初Words ending in 初Anywhere in a word