Character Details
| why | Ascii: — | w552 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 为什么 | wèishénme | way-shuh-meh | 4+2+5 | 以 (人 person + 丿 slash) + 为 (丶 dot + 力 power) | 为什么 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Not Yet Developed | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Why are you laughing? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Compound Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Structure | Construction | ||||||||||
| left‑right; question phrase | 为 (effort) + 什 (person + ten) + 么 (curl) | ||||||||||
| Why: effort (为) + what (什) + question curl (么). | |||||||||||