如是说

如是說
rúshìshuō
phrase #29,961

Meanings

  1. 1 thus spoke
  2. 2 so said
  3. 3 as it is written

Examples

Chá lā tú sī tè lā rú shì shuō shì Nícǎi de zhùmíng zhéxué zuòpǐn.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Nietzsche's famous philosophical work.
Gǔjí zhōng rú shì shuō, hòurén jiē fèng wéi jīngdiǎn.
The ancient texts said as much, and later generations treated it as canon.

Tips

culture
如是说 is best known as part of 斯特拉如是说, the Chinese title for Nietzsche's 「Also sprach Zarathustra」 (Thus Spoke Zarathustra). The phrase echoes classical Chinese Buddhist and Confucian text idioms meaning 「it is as follows.」

Stroke Order

shì
shuō