什
shénshí HSK1

what

什 shén frequency
what pronoun

你最近一直在忙些什么，好久没见你出来运动了。

nǐ zuì​jìn yī​zhí zài máng xiē shén me, hǎo​jiǔ méi jiàn nǐ chū​lái yùn​dòng le.

What have you been busy with lately? It's been ages since I last saw you out for a workout.

什 shí
miscellaneous noun
consisting of various types or assorted items

这些生活什物他都收拾得整整齐齐。

zhè​xiē shēng​huó shí wù tā dōu shōu​shi de zhěng​zhěng​qí​qí.

He arranged all these household items neatly.

ten pronoun
the number ten, typically used in fractions or when writing checks and legal documents

什一税是古代的一种税收制度。

shí yī shuì shì gǔ​dài de yī zhǒng shuì​shōu zhì​dù.

The tithe was an ancient tax system.

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
156th most common 1384.3 per million
Movie subtitles
22nd most common 6558.0 per million appears in 100% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
45.6 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
38.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+4EC0

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)