Read Edit View history 盍 hé what? why not? Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 盍 hé variant 盇 why not (literary) used before a verb to ask a question in the sense of "why not"; same as 何不 hébù why (literary) why; how; for what reason 盍 hé He a Chinese surname Cross-References Same as 何不 hébù何 hé盖 hé Frequency Character Written text 5,625th most common 0.517 per million Word Written text 0.539 per million Details Strokes 10 Unicode U+76CD Sources Frequency data MTSU Chinese text computingBCC Corpus (BLCU)
盍 hé variant 盇 why not (literary) used before a verb to ask a question in the sense of "why not"; same as 何不 hébù why (literary) why; how; for what reason 盍 hé He a Chinese surname