若

ruò

conjunction HSK 6 #1,703

Meanings

Ruò yǒu wèntí, qǐng suíshí liánxì wǒ.

If you have any questions, please contact me anytime.

Ruò bú shì nǐ bāngmáng, wǒ zǎo jiù fàngqì le.

If it weren't for your help, I would have given up long ago.

Tā ruòwúqíshì de zǒu le jìnlái.

He walked in as if nothing had happened.

Ruòjí ruòlí de tàidù ràng rén zhuōmō bù tòu.

An attitude that's neither close nor distant is hard to read.

usage

若 is the literary/formal equivalent of 如果. Common in written Chinese, news, and set phrases. 若...则... is a formal 'if...then...' pattern.

usage

Common idioms: 若无其事 (as if nothing happened), 若即若离 (neither close nor distant), 若隐若现 (now visible, now hidden).

若 ruò