漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
誰: who, someone
Also: somebody
N3 (our estimate)15 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
言 carries the meaning · 隹 is drawn in
15 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
スイsui · on'yomi · in compounds
- 誰何すいかasking a person's identity
だれdare · kun'yomi · on its own
- 誰だれwho
- 誰かだれかsomeone; somebody
- 誰もだれもeveryone; anyone
- 誰でもだれでもanyone; anybody; everyone
- 誰にもだれにもto anyone; to everyone
- 誰にでもだれにでもanyone; anybody; everyone
Also read たれ, た, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Words flowing from the heart and into the world! The lines radiating upward show the power of the voice as it leaves the mouth.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side誰 who · 言 + 隹
vs確 assurance · 石 + 寉In ChineseSimplified 谁 · traditional, as in Japanese · shéi
Japan keeps the traditional form 誰; mainland China simplifies it to 谁.
- Simplified
- 谁 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 誰 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin shéi most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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