IDENTITY
谁shuíwho
HSK 1Top 250
CORE MEANING
who
- Part of speech
- pronoun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.whoHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 讠speech radical (yán)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰讠隹
- speech; asking
- gives the sound shuí/shéi
USAGE
Common words
谁家shéi jiāwhose home
谁呀shéi yawho is it
Graded examples
这是谁的书？Zhè shì shéi de shū?HSK1
Whose book is this?
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 准
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
Asking (讠) about a person, a bird (隹) of a question — who? (From 誰.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #250
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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