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啥

shá

HSK 6 Character

What 啥 means

1. dialectal equivalent of {什么|shén me}
2. also pr. shà

Example sentences

• 啥？
  Say what?
• 这是啥？
  What's this?
• 她在吃啥？
  What is she eating?
• 你在想啥呢？
  What are you thinking about?
• 他为啥生气？
  Why is he angry?
• 我啥也没做。
  I didn't do anything.

Words starting with 啥

• 啥子shá zi(dialect) what

Words containing 啥

• 为啥wèi shádialectal equivalent of 为什么
• 呒啥ḿ shádialectal equivalent of 没什么

Characters that look like 啥

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 喻yùto describe sth as; an analogy; a simile
• 喳chāused in 喳喳
• 哧chī(onomatopoeia) giggling; breathing; tearing of paper, ripping of fabric etc
• 嗖sōu(onomatopoeia) whooshing; swishing; rustle of skirts
• 喹kuíused in 喹啉

Sounds the same

Read shá, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 倽old variant of 啥

Where 啥 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chà–shǎn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shá correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.