Chinese symbol for “similar”
类似
lèi sì
Traditional: 類似
similar; analogous
The closest CC-CEDICT match for similar is 类似 (lèi sì), defined as: similar; analogous.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “similar”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 相似 | xiāng sì | similar; alike |
| 同类 (同類) | tóng lèi | similar; same type |
| 肖 | xiào | similar; resembling |
| 同样 (同樣) | tóng yàng | same; equal; similar; similarly; also; too |
| 相仿 | xiāng fǎng | similar |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 类似.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人类 (人類) | rén lèi | humanity; human race |
| 类型 (類型) | lèi xíng | type; kind; category; (computer programming) type |
| 分类 (分類) | fēn lèi | to classify |
| 之类 (之類) | zhī lèi | and so on; and such |
| 种类 (種類) | zhǒng lèi | kind; genus |
| 似乎 | sì hū | it seems; seemingly; as if |
| 相似 | xiāng sì | similar; alike |
| 似的 | shì de | seems as if; rather like |
See also: Japanese symbol for “similar”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.