shéi in a sentence

Who

Full dictionary entry HSK 1 7 sentences

谁 (shéi) means Who. Below are 7 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

她是

Tā shì shéi?

Who is she?

Dictionary example · HSK 1 ·

刚才是 打的电话?

Gāngcái shì shéi dǎ de diànhuà?

Who was that on the phone just now?

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 刚才

From the graded readers

她看了很久,然后一个一个地告诉我他们是

tā kànle hěn jiǔ, ránhòu yīgè yīgè dì / de gàosu wǒ tāmen shì shéi.

She looked at it for a long time, then told me one by one who they were.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · An Old Photograph

From the travel phrasebook

付运费?

Shéi fù yùnfèi?

Who pays the freight?

Travel phrasebook · Quality problems and claims

报关 负责?

Bàoguān shéi fùzé?

Who handles the export declaration?

Travel phrasebook · Shipping and customs

你们还给 供货?

Nǐmen hái gěi shéi gōnghuò?

Who else do you supply?

Travel phrasebook · Trade fairs and factory visits

From the grammar library

他是

Tā shì shéi?

Who is he?

Grammar library · HSK 1 · Question words stay in place

Questions about 谁

How is 谁 used in a sentence?

This page shows 7 sentences using 谁 (shéi, "Who"), 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.

Why do some sentences show 谁 inside a longer word?

Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 谁 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.

Is 谁 an HSK word?

Yes — 谁 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 谁?

The dictionary page for 谁 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.

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