么
me
ending in 什么 what, 怎么 how
No. 28 most used · 1.2% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 84.
How it's built
- 丿stroke
- 厶private
A way to remember it
A short tail for words: 什么 what, 怎么 how, 那么 so. Learn it inside them.
Top 50 · accounts for 41% of everyday spoken Chinese · 0 of 50 known
Words
- 什么shén mewhat?; something; anything
- 怎么zěn mehow?; what?; why?
- 为什么wèi shén mewhy?; for what reason?
- 这么zhè meso much; this much; how much?
- 那么nà melike that; in that way; to that extent; (before a number) ... or so; about ...; then; in that case
- 怎么样zěn me yànghow?; how about?; how was it?
Sentences
- 下一站是什么地方？xià yí zhàn shì shén me dì fāngWhat's the next station?
- 不知作者在说什么。bù zhī zuò zhě zài shuō shén meIt is not clear what the writer is trying to say.
- 为什么我还在这里？wèi shén me wǒ hái zài zhè lǐWhy am I still here?
- 今天发生了什么事？jīn tiān fā shēng le shén me shìWhat happened today?
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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.