Character Details
| what | Ascii: — | w520 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 什么 | shénme | shun-meh | 2+5 | Not Yet Developed | 什么 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Not Yet Developed | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - What time? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
| Strokes | |||||||||||
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| Compound Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Structure | Construction | ||||||||||
| left‑right; pronoun | 什 (亻 person radical + 十 ten) + 么 (丿 slash + 厶 private) | ||||||||||
| A person (亻) asking a tiny curling question (么) — “what?” | |||||||||||