什么

shénme

what?; something; anything

pronoun HSK 3.0 · Band 1 trad. 什麼

Watch it being written

Every character draws itself, stroke by stroke. Then grab the brush: trace it yourself and hear the word when you finish.

Build with these blocks

Chinese words snap together like bricks. Every word below shares a character with this one, so you are already halfway to knowing it.

See it in sentences

这是什么?

What is this?

你在看什么?

What are you looking at?