什 (shí)
What (used in 什麼).
How 什 is written
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 亻 — human
- Traditional
- 什
- Simplified
- 什 (unchanged)
Components
- 亻 human
- 十 ten
什 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- shí
- ten (used in fractions, writing checks etc); assorted; miscellaneous
- shén
- what
Common words using 什
- 什麼 shénme
- what?; who?; something
- 為什麼 wèishénme
- why?; for what reason?
- 幹甚麼 gànshénme
- what are you doing?; what's he up to?
- 沒什麼 méishénme
- variant of 沒甚麼|没什么, nothing; it doesn't matter; it's nothing
- 甚麼樣 shénmeyàng
- what kind?; what sort?
- 什剎海 shíchàhǎi
- Shichahai, scenic area of northwest Beijing with three lakes
- 什葉派 shíyèpài
- Shia sect (of Islam)
- 什邡 shífāng
- Shifang county level city in Deyang 德陽|德阳[De2 yang2], Sichuan
- 什邡市 shífāngshì
- Shifang county level city in Deyang 德陽|德阳[De2 yang2], Sichuan
- 克什克騰旗 kèshíkèténgqí
- Hexigten banner or Kesigüten khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰[Chi4 feng1], Inner Mongolia
- 喀什 kāshí
- Kashgar or Qeshqer (Kāshí) city and prefecture in the west of Xinjiang near Kyrgyzstan
- 喀什市 kāshíshì
- Qeshqer Shehiri (Kashgar city) in the west of Xinjiang near Kyrgyzstan
什 in a sentence
這是什麼？
Zhè shì shénme?
“What is this?”
How common is 什?
什 is the 156th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 50.6% of all running text.
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