似 sì
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 亻 — man, person
- Made of
- 亻 man, person 以 according to
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
似曾相识
sìcéngxiāngshí
to seem familiar; déjà vu
Characters in this word
曾 céng
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 曰 — to speak
- Made of
- 丷 horns 日 sun
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
相 xiāng
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 目 — eye
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
识 shí
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 只 only, merely, just
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 走进这条老街，我忽然有种似曾相识的感觉。 Zǒu jìn zhè tiáo lǎo jiē, wǒ hūrán yǒu zhǒng sìcéngxiāngshí de gǎnjué. Walking into this old street, I suddenly had a strange sense of déjà vu.
- 这首歌的旋律似曾相识，好像小时候在哪里听过。 Zhè shǒu gē de xuánlǜ sìcéngxiāngshí, hǎoxiàng xiǎoshíhou zài nǎlǐ tīngguò. The melody of this song seems familiar, as if I heard it somewhere as a child.
- 初次见面却觉得似曾相识，也许这就是缘分吧。 Chūcì jiànmiàn què juéde sìcéngxiāngshí, yěxǔ zhè jiùshì yuánfèn ba. We had just met, yet it felt as if we had known each other before — perhaps this really is fate.
Related words
- 类似 lèisì similar
- 相似 xiāngsì similar
- 似的 shìde as if (comparison)
- 似乎 sìhū seemingly; it seems
- 看似 kànsì to seem, to appear
- 好似 hǎosì to seem; to be like
- 酷似 kùsì to closely resemble
- 似是而非 sìshì'érfēi specious; seemingly right but actually wrong
- 曾经 céngjīng once; in the past
- 曾 céng once (in the past)
- 不曾 bùcéng never
- 相同 xiāngtóng same