谁 · shéi
who? whom? whose? anyone?
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
who? whom? whose? anyone?
- Mandarin
- shéi
- Cantonese
- seoi4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+8C01
- Radical
- 讠 · 149
- Strokes
- 10 · Unihan
- Residual
- 8
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
10 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 谁
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Sentence context · 2 matches
谁也不能帮我。
Source, contributors & licenses
Mandarin: Tatoeba #396076 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #40350 · Original contributor: Kristinka · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: CK
Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.
History & distinctions
Related forms
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- shéi
- kCantonese
- seoi4
- kDefinition
- who? whom? whose? anyone?
- kTotalStrokes
- 10
- kRSUnicode
- 149'.8
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+8AB0
- kTGH
- 2013:2122
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- shéi 1015.020 · shuí 1074.030
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- shéi 329.160 · shuí 344.120
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- shuí(1065)