什
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what
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 人 +2
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 什
- Common rank
- #973
- Unicode
- U+4EC0
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
what? · Heisig RSH #802
人 person + needle
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 什
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 干什么 | what are you doing?; what's he up to? | |
| 没什么 | it doesn't matter; it's nothing; never mind; think nothing of it; it's my pleasure; you're… | |
| 什么 | what?; something; anything | |
| 拉什卡尔加 | Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province in south Afghanistan | |
| 卡拉什尼科夫 | Kalashnikov (the AK-47 assault rifle) | |
| 布尔什维克 | Bolshevik | |
| 塔什库尔干塔吉克自治县 | Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County, in Kashgar City 喀什市[Ka1 shi2 Shi4], Xinjiang | |
| 法尔卡什 | Farkas (Hungarian name) | |
| 阿什哈巴特 | Ashgabat, capital of Turkmenistan (Tw) | |
| 阿什哈巴德 | Ashgabat, capital of Turkmenistan | |
| 克什米尔 | Kashmir | |
| 阿图什市 | Artush, a county-level city in Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture 克孜勒蘇柯爾克孜自治州|克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治… | |
| 阿什拉维 | surname Ashrawi; Hanan Daoud Khalil Ashrawi (1946-), Palestinian scholar and political act… | |
| 拉什莫尔山 | Mt Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota | |
| 巴控克什米尔 | Pakistan administered Kashmir | |
| 布什尔 | Bushehr Province of southern Iran, bordering on the Persian Gulf; Bushehr, port city, capi… | |
| 塔什库尔干县 | see 塔什庫爾干塔吉克自治縣|塔什库尔干塔吉克自治县[Ta3 shi2 ku4 er3 gan1 Ta3 ji2 ke4 Zi4 zhi4 xian4] | |
| 萨卡什维利 | Mikheil Saakashvili (1967-), Georgian politician, president of Georgia 2004-2013 | |
| 林子大了，什么鸟都有 | it takes all sorts (to make a world) (idiom) | |
| 纳什维尔 | Nashville, capital of Tennessee |