誰
shéi HSK1

who? whom? whose? anyone?

谁 誰 shéi
who pronoun
who; someone; anyone

我觉得她谁也不喜欢。

wǒ jué​de tā shéi yě bù xǐ​huan.

I don't think she likes anyone.

how could pronoun
(literary) how; why (used in rhetorical questions)

谁想得到你会在九点前起床？

shéi xiǎng de​dào nǐ huì zài jiǔ diǎn qián qǐ chuáng?

Who would have thought you'd be up before nine?

whoever pronoun
used in pairs to indicate the same person or used in pairs to indicate different people

谁对谁更重要？

shéi duì shéi gèng zhòng​yào?

Who is more important to whom?

surname
a Chinese surname

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Frequency
Character
Written text
648th most common 318.0 per million
Movie subtitles
159th most common 1128.6 per million appears in 99% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1573.4 per million appears in 99% of films
Written text
454.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Simplified
谁
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+8AB0

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