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某

mǒu

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 character level 5 Character

某 (mǒu) means "a certain, some". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 某 means

1. some
2. a certain
3. sb or sth indefinite
4. such-and-such

How 某 is used in grammar

某 is a grammar word. Each link goes to its own section: what it does in that pattern, the structure, three example sentences with pinyin, and the mistake to avoid.

• Demonstratives & Measure Words (HSK 5)

Example sentences

• 某人偷了汤的吉他
  Mǒurén tōu le tāng de jítā
  Someone stole Tom's guitar.
• 他家在这儿某处。
  Tā jiā zài zhèr mǒuchù.
  His house is somewhere about here.
• 他去了某个地方。
  He went to some place or other.
• 他听到某人叫救命。
  Tā tīngdào mǒurén jiào jiùmìng.
  He heard someone calling for help.
• 珍正在和某人交谈。
  Jane is talking with somebody.
• 我在等待着某个人。
  I'm expecting someone.

Words starting with 某

• 某些mǒu xiēsome; certain (things)
• 某种mǒu zhǒngsome kind (of)
• 某人mǒu rénsomeone; a certain person; some people
• 某某mǒu mǒuso-and-so; such-and-such
• 某地mǒu dìsomewhere; some place
• 某处mǒu chùsomewhere
• 某事mǒu shìsomething; a certain matter
• 某甲mǒu jiǎsomebody; certain individual
• 某时mǒu shísometime
• 某物mǒu wùsomething

Characters that look like 某

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

• 高gāohigh; tall; above average
• 莱láiname of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc); Chenopodium album
• 桨jiǎngoar; paddle
• 茉mòused in 茉莉
• 荚jiápod (botany)
• 奚xī(literary) what?; where?; why?

Sounds the same

Read mǒu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 厶old variant of 某

Where 某 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Imitation, Vagueness & Pronoun (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 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 mǒu correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.