为什么為什麼

为什么為什麼 in English

wèi shén me pronoun HSK 2: why? / for what reason?

Character breakdown

为爲 wèi because of
什 shí ten (used in fractions, writing checks e…
么麼 me suffix, used to form interrogative 什麼|什么…

Stroke order

Le caractère 为 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 为

Le caractère 為 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 什 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 什

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 么 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 么

Le caractère 麼 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

什

Small seal script
Clerical script 西漢
See all 4 forms

么

These are the forms of 麼, the traditional character: 么 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

"你为什么不去？""因为我不想去。"

"Why aren't you going?" "Because I don't want to."
“为什么你不来？”“因为我不想。”

"Why aren't you going?" "Because I don't want to."
不知道她为什么这么担心呢。

I wonder why she is so worried.
为什么不？

Why not?
为什么不尝尝寿司？

Why don't you have some sushi?
为什么不订些批萨呢？

Why don't we order pizza?
为什么今天火车站没有出租车？

Why are there no taxis at the station today?

All example sentences with 为什么

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