Character Details
| who? | Ascii: 21313 | w466 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 谁 | shéi | shay | 2 | 讠 (speech) + 隹 (short‑tailed bird) → who | 谁 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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If a turkey asks you where his friend is you will not understand his gobble talk and ask “who?” lots of times. | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Who is she? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 156 - 虍 | hū | horn | tiger stripes | tiger‑stripe pattern | 虎 虎 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 讠 (speech) + 隹 (short‑tailed bird) → who | 讠 (semantic) | 隹 (phonetic) | phonetic from 隹 | ||||||||