好似
hǎo sì · HSK 6
to be like
🪞 好 good + 似 similar — so alike it seems the same
When two things are a good (好) match in similarity (似), one appears just like the other. The compound stacks approval onto resemblance.
好 — woman 女 + child 子
好 is an associative compound showing a woman 女 beside a child 子, depicting a mother with her baby. From this image of maternal affection it came to mean 'good, fine, pleasing.' The reading hǎo means 'good'; read hào it means 'to like.'