似乎
sì hū
Pinyin

Definition

似乎
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sì hū
  1. apparently
  2. to seem
  3. to appear
  4. as if
  5. seemingly

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

似
shì
  1. 1 see also: 似的 shì de
似乎
sì hū
  1. 1 apparently
  2. 2 to seem
  3. 3 to appear
  4. 4 as if
  5. 5 seemingly
在乎
zài hu
  1. 1 to care about
  2. 2 equivalent of 在於|在于[zài yú]
几乎
jī hū
  1. 1 almost
  2. 2 nearly
  3. 3 practically
貌似
mào sì
  1. 1 to appear to be
  2. 2 to seem as if

Idioms (20)

之乎者也
zhī hū zhě yě
  1. 1 lit. 之[zhī], 乎[hū], 者[zhě] and 也[yě] (four grammatical particles of Classical Chinese) (idiom); fig. archaic expressions
似是而非
sì shì ér fēi
  1. 1 apparently right but actually wrong; specious (idiom)
似水年华
sì shuǐ nián huá
  1. 1 fleeting years (idiom)
似笑非笑
sì xiào fēi xiào
  1. 1 like a smile yet not a smile (idiom)
侯门似海
hóu mén sì hǎi
  1. 1 lit. the gate of a noble house is like the sea
  2. 2 there is a wide gap between the nobility and the common people (idiom)

Sample Sentences

似乎
sìhū
To seem.
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这首词经过现代音乐人的再创作，就变成我们今天听到的这首歌曲了，词曲搭配和谐，似乎就像是宋代曲赋的原创，再加上歌手王菲空灵的嗓音把音乐演绎得几近完美。
zhè shǒu cí jīngguò xiàndài yīnyuèrén de zài chuàngzuò ，jiù biànchéng wǒmen jīntiān tīngdào de zhè shǒu gēqǔ le ，cí qǔ dāpèi héxié ，sìhu jiù xiàng shì Sòng Dài qǔfù de yuán chuàng ，zài jiāshang gēshǒu Wáng Fēi kònglíng de sǎngyīn bǎ yīnyuè yǎnyì de jījìn wánměi 。
After being reinterpreted by modern musicians this ci poem became the song that we heard today. The poem paired with the harmony seem almost like an original Song Dynasty poem and in addition the singer Faye Wong's ethereal voice goes with the music almost perfectly.
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有一晚，秦宇在打烊的时候突然想起，似乎一星期没见到女孩儿来买咖啡了。他心想：”大概是出去旅游了吧！”
yǒu yī wǎn ，qínyǔ zài dǎyàng de shíhou tūrán xiǎngqǐ ，sìhū yī xīngqī méi jiàndào nǚháiēr lái mǎi kāfēi le 。tā xīnxiǎng ：”dàgài shì chūqù lǚyóu le ba ！”
One night, when closing the shop, QinYu suddenly realised that it had been a week since the last time the girl bought a cup of coffee here. "Maybe she went traveling! ", he thought.
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哈哈，不过北京就真的是四季分明，不像台北似乎只有两个季节。
hāhā ，bùguò Běijīng jiù zhēnde shì sì jì fēnmíng ，bù xiàng Táiběi sìhu zhǐyǒu liǎng gè jìjié 。
Haha, but Beijing really has a clear difference between the four seasons, not like Taipei were it seems like there are only two seasons.
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能够领悟到这一层，你似乎蛮适合做器官捐赠人的嘛，快去签个同意书，领一张器官捐赠卡吧，好过个有价值的人生。
nénggòu lǐngwù dào zhè yī céng ，nǐ sìhu mán shìhé zuò qìguān juānzèngrén de ma ，kuài qù qiān gè tóngyìshū ，lǐng yī zhāng qìguān juānzèng kǎ ba ，hǎo guò ge yǒu jiàzhí de rénshēng 。
If you understand that then you're an ideal candidate for organ donation, no? Hurry up and sign the form, then you can get an organ donor card, to allow you to live a meaningful life.
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小时候提到僵尸，都跟怪力乱神的事连在一起，什么道士作法啊、符箓、鬼怪等等，现在提到僵尸，似乎都跟病毒、传染病、疫苗、世界末日什么的连在一起了。
xiǎo shíhou tídào jiāngshī ，dōu gēn guài lì luàn shén de shì liánzàiyīqǐ ，shénme dàoshi zuò fǎ ā 、fúlù 、guǐguài děngdeng ，xiànzài tídào jiāngshī ，sìhu dōu gēn bìngdú 、chuánrǎnbìng 、yìmiáo 、shìjièmòrì shénme de lián zài yīqǐ le 。
Whenever people would bring up zombies and magical forces when I was little, it was always to do with Taoist spells, curses, ghosts and monsters, but now when people talk of zombies, it is associated more with viruses, infections, vaccines and stuff like the apocalypse.
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你们有没有一种感觉，似乎中国人的拖延症尤其严重，不守时的情况屡屡发生，这跟文化是不是也有关系？
nǐmen yǒumeiyǒu yīzhǒng gǎnjué ，sìhu Zhōngguórén de tuōyánzhèng yóuqí yánzhòng ，bùshǒushí de qíngkuàng lǚlǚ fāshēng ，zhè gēn wénhuà shìbushì yě yǒu guānxi ？
Do you feel that Chinese people are more subject to procrastination, and that a lack of punctuality is a cultural thing?
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他没有继续下去，而小尤似乎明白李探长要说什么。
tā méiyǒu jìxù xiàqu ，ér XiǎoYóu sìhu míngbai Lǐ tànzhǎng yào shuō shénme 。
He didn't finish his thought, but Xiao You seemed to understand what Detective Li was trying to say.
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怎么办？响声很刺耳，似乎在说：“快接电话！快接电话！”
zěnme bàn ？xiǎngshēng hěn cìěr ，sìhu zài shuō ：“kuài jiē diànhuà ！kuài jiē diànhuà ！”
What could she do? The sound was really grating and seemed to be saying, "answer me! answer me!"
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我的心似乎从来都不能平静
wǒ de xīn sìhu cónglái dōu bùnéng píngjìng
My heart seems like it can never be at peace
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