似曾相识

Traditional form:

似曾相識

Pinyin (reading):

sìcéngxiāngshí

Definitions:

• déjà vu (the experience of seeing exactly the same situation a second time)
• seemingly familiar
• apparently already acquainted

Characters:

• 似 - resembling, similar to; as if, to seem
• 曾 - already, formerly, once; the past
• 相 - mutual, reciprocal; equal; each other
• 识 - knowledge; to understand, to recognize, to know

Traditional characters:

• 似 - resembling, similar to; as if, to seem
• 曾 - already, formerly, once; the past
• 相 - mutual, reciprocal; equal; each other
• 識 - knowledge; to understand, to recognize, to know