何

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Interjection 3.2 Noun 3.2.1 Derived terms 3.3 Kanji 3.3.1 Readings 3.3.2 Compounds 3.4 See also 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi

[edit] Translingual

Stroke order

[edit] Han character

何 (radical 9 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人一弓口 (OMNR), four-corner 2122₀)

1. what, why, where, which, how
2. a surname

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 98, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 511
• Dae Jaweon: page 208, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 130, character 4
• Unihan data for U+4F55

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

何 (Yale ho4)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Interjection

何 (hiragana なに, romaji nani)

1. What?, Huh?

[edit] Noun

何 (hiragana なに, romaji nani)

何 (hiragana なん, romaji nan)

1. what
2. that thing (used in place of words you can't remember at the moment.)

[edit] Derived terms

• 何か
• 何も
• 何かしら
• 何しろ
• 何せ
• 何たる

[edit] Kanji

何 (grade 2 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: か (ka), が (ga)
• Kun: なに (nani), なんぞ (nanzo), いずく (izuku), ど (do)

[edit] Compounds

• 如何, 奈何
• 幾何
• 誰何
• 如何
• 何々, 何何
• 幾何
• 何事
• 何卒
• 何共
• 何人
• 何等
• 何程
• 何箇
• 何回
• 何故
• 何歳, 何才
• 何時
• 何者
• 何処
• 何条
• 何色搨
• 何点
• 何度
• 何奴
• 何物
• 何分
• 何遍
• 何某
• 何様

[edit] See also

• どれ (どれ, dore) which one?
• どの (どの, dono) (of) what?
• 何処 (どこ, doko) where?
• 何方 (どちら, dochira) which way?
• 如何 (どう, dō) in what manner?

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

何 (hangeul 하, revised ha, McCune-Reischauer ha)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

何 (pinyin hé (he2), Wade-Giles ho²)