(shuí) - who, whom in Mandarin
shuíTraditional: 誰
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Translation
who, whom
Word origin
誰 (shuí) means 'who'. It is a phono-semantic compound with 言 (speech) as the meaning radical and 隹 (zhuī), a short-tailed bird, as the phonetic component.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 言 (speech radical) + 隹 (zhuī, phonetic)
Stroke order
谁
Examples
？
Who are you?
？
Who knows the answer?
？
Whose phone is this?
敲？
Who is knocking at the door?
。
I do not know who he is.
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(1)Grammar articles
(4)Mandarin Verb Conjugation: Why It Doesn't Exist and What Replaces It
Mandarin Question Formation: 吗, V-Not-V, 还是, and the In-Situ Wh-Word System
The Mandarin 是…的 (shì...de) Construction: Highlighting When, Where, and How Something Happened
Yes-No Questions in Mandarin: 吗 (ma), Echo Answers, and the Bounce-Back 呢 (ne)
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