曷 hé why? what? where? Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 曷 hé [question word] (literary) an interrogative word used in classical writing to mean "why", "how", "what", or "where"; same as 何 hé when (literary) at what time; when why not (literary) used to suggest an action by asking why it is not being done; same as 何不 hébù how could (literary) used in rhetorical questions to express disbelief or emphasis, meaning "how could it be" or "is it possible that" surname a Chinese surname Cross-References Same as 何 hé何不 hébù害 hé Frequency Character Written text 5,256th most common 0.744 per million Word Written text 0.287 per million Details Strokes 9 Unicode U+66F7 Sources Frequency data MTSU Chinese text computingBCC Corpus (BLCU)
曷 hé [question word] (literary) an interrogative word used in classical writing to mean "why", "how", "what", or "where"; same as 何 hé when (literary) at what time; when why not (literary) used to suggest an action by asking why it is not being done; same as 何不 hébù how could (literary) used in rhetorical questions to express disbelief or emphasis, meaning "how could it be" or "is it possible that" surname a Chinese surname
