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Mythic Mandarin

谁 (shéi): meaning and stroke order

谁 (shéi) means who, also pr..

谁

Simplified
谁
Traditional
誰
Pinyin
shéi

Stroke order of 谁

谁

  • shéi who; also pr. [shui2]
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 誰

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 谁

  1. shéi Traditional 誰
    • who
    • also pr. [shui2]

Radical and structure

谁
Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 10 strokes · 讠 on the left, 隹 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

谁 in our stories

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  • 朋友看照片：“这个孩子是谁？”

    péngyou kàn zhàopiàn zhè gè háizi shì shéi

    His friend looks at the photo: "Who is this child?"

    From the story A photo HSK 1

  • 刚来的时候，她谁也不认识，下班回到空空的房间，常常觉得很孤单。

    gāng lái de shíhou tā shéi yě bú rènshi xiàbān huídào kōngkōng de fángjiān chángcháng juéde hěn gūdān

    At first she knew nobody, and coming home after work to an empty room she often felt lonely.

    From the story No chilli, please HSK 4

  • 很多同学说自己听到过，可是谁也不敢进去看。

    hěn duō tóngxué shuō zìjǐ tīngdào guò kěshì shéi yě bù gǎn jìnqu kàn

    Many students said they had heard it, but nobody dared to go in and look.

    From the story The piano at midnight HSK 4

Where you learn it

谁 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 1 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.

Stories using 谁

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).