as / as if / such as

= + : Mnemonic symbol: Asif ibn Barkhiya, according to the Qur'an, throne hauler at the court of king Salomon.

= + : Just inside the space station's entrance, Asif ibn Barkhiya, Rachel Rhinoceros and Bessie Coleman are playing monkey, throwing a mandarin as if they were little kids.

如 character breakdown

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
female / woman / daughter

I'll represent 女 by Bessie Coleman, the first female pilot of African American descent.
archaic variant of 汝[ru3]

Characters with 如 as component

to forgive

= + : Sheldon Shrimp (shu) broke Asif ibn Barkhiya's (如) heart (心) when he accidentally stepped on it in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), but Asif ibn Barkhiya is ready to forgive (恕) Sheldon.
cotton wadding / fig. padding / long-winded
surname Ru
to eat / (extended meaning) to endure / putrid smell / vegetables / roots (inextricably attached to the plant)
rubidium (chemistry)
damp / boggy / marshy
to apprehend / to take
thin outside skin of bamboo
old rags
quail-like bird

Words with 如

not equal to / not as good as / inferior to / it would be better to
(idiom) nothing more than this; that's all; no big deal; not very impressive
Chiuju township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[Ping2 dong1 Xian4], Taiwan
Chiuju township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[Ping2 dong1 Xian4], Taiwan
as matters stand / things having reached this stage
leaving much to be desired / unsatisfactory / undesirable
hanging by a thread / very precarious / almost extinct / (of sound) linger on faintly

Sentences with 如

wǒ
da̅ng
shén
me
shì
 
 
yuán
lái
rú
cǐ