何必

何必 hébì in a sentence

Why

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 2 sentences

何必 (hébì) means Why. Below are 2 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

何必 这么着急呢?

Hébì zhème zháojí ne?

Why be in such a rush?

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 何必

你 何必 为他生气。

Nǐ hébì wèi tā shēngqì.

There is no need to get angry over him.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 何必

Reading these is one thing; producing 何必 yourself is another. Cloze in Context takes a sentence from this same bank, removes one word and asks you to put it back — beginner, intermediate and advanced.

Questions about 何必

How is 何必 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 何必 (hébì, "Why"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 何必 an HSK word?

Yes — 何必 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 何必?

The dictionary page for 何必 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

Keep going

Read the full entry for 何必, write a sentence of your own and check it in the Pinyin Annotator, drill it with HSK 5 flashcards, or search the whole sentence bank for another word.

Another word

Chinese, pinyin or English. Tone marks optional.