Character: 如
Modern (Beijing) reading: rú
Preclassic Old Chinese: na
Classic Old Chinese: na
Western Han Chinese: na
Eastern Han Chinese: ńa
Early Postclassic Chinese: ńo
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ńo
Late Postclassic Chinese: ńo
Middle Chinese: ńö
English meaning : be like
Russian meaning[s]: 1) походить; вроде; наподобие; 2) например; как то; 3) если, если бы; 4) или; 5) уехать (отправиться) в...
Shuowen gloss: 從隨也.從女.從口. [620]
Comments: There also exists a reading *na-s, MC ńö̀ (FQ 人恕). Also used for a homonymous *na 'to go to'. Standard Sino-Viet. is nhu'. For *n- cf. Min readings: Xiamen ʒu3, Chaozhou zu3, Fuzhou ü3.
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Number: 256
Character: 如
MC description : 遇合三平魚日
ZIHUI: 1172 0902
Beijing: ẓu 12
Jinan: lu 3
Xi'an: vu 11
Taiyuan: zu 1
Hankou: y 12
Chengdu: zu 12
Yangzhou: lu 12
Suzhou: zü 12
Wenzhou: zi_ 12
Changsha: y 12
Shuangfeng: y 12
Nanchang: з̂ 31
Meixian: ji 12
Guangzhou: jy 12
Xiamen: ʒu 12
Chaozhou: zu 12
Fuzhou: y 12
Shanghai: zü 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: žiu 12
Radical: 38
Four-angle index: 1083
Karlgren code: 0094 g-i
Vietnamese reading: ná
Shijing occurrences: 10.1, 10.3, 23.2, 24.2, 26.1, 26.5, 28.1, 29.1, 29.2, 29.3, 34.3, 35.2, 37.4, 38.2, 38.3, 47.1, 47.2, 47.3, 51.3, 54.4, 55.1, 55.2, 55.3, 57.2