什么 (shén me): meaning and stroke order
什么 (shén me) means what?, something; anything.
什么
- Simplified
- 什么
- Traditional
- 什麼
- Pinyin
- shén me
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Stroke order of 什么
什
- shén what
- shí ten (used in fractions, writing checks etc); assorted
- 4 strokes
Stroke by stroke
么
- Yāo surname Yao
- yāo youngest; most junior
- má exclamatory final particle
- 3 strokes
- Simplified form: 幺
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Meaning of 什么
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shén me
Traditional 什麼
- what?
- something; anything
Radicals of the characters
- 什
- Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 4 strokes · 亻 on the left, 十 on the right
- 么
- Radical 丿 (Kangxi radical 4) · 3 strokes
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.
什么 in our stories
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服务员说：“你想吃什么？”
fúwùyuán shuō nǐ xiǎng chī shénme
The waiter says, "What would you like to eat?"
From the story At the restaurant HSK 1
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“你姓什么？”
nǐ xìng shénme
"What's your surname?"
From the story The first day at school HSK 1
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司机说：“你去医院做什么？”
sījī shuō nǐ qù yīyuàn zuò shénme
The driver says, "What are you going to the hospital for?"
From the story Taking a taxi HSK 1
Where you learn it
什么 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 1 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.
Stories using 什么
- At the restaurant HSK 1
- The first day at school HSK 1
- Taking a taxi HSK 1
- Ice-cold watermelon HSK 2
- The first date HSK 2
- Sweets for the Kitchen God HSK 5
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).