谁 (shéi) means Who. Below are 24 of the 25 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
刚才是 谁 打的电话？
Gāngcái shì shéi dǎ de diànhuà?
Who was that on the phone just now?
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 刚才
这本书的作者是 谁 ？
Zhè běn shū de zuòzhě shì shéi?
Who is the author of this book?
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 作者
谁 都难免出现失误。
Shéi dōu nánmiǎn chūxiàn shīwù.
Nobody can avoid making mistakes.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 失误
谁 对 谁 错一目了然。
Shéi duì shéi cuò yímùliǎorán.
Who is right and who is wrong is obvious at a glance.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 一目了然
这件事到底是 谁 做的？
Zhè jiàn shì dàodǐ shì shéi zuò de?
Who on earth did this?
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 到底
将来的事 谁 也说不清。
Jiānglái de shì shéi yě shuō bu qīng.
Nobody can say what the future holds.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 将来
他从来没有看不起 谁 。
Tā cónglái méiyǒu kàn bu qǐ shéi.
He has never looked down on anyone.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 看不起
这次活动 谁 也不能缺席。
Zhè cì huódòng shéi yě bù néng quē xí.
Nobody may be absent from this event.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 缺席
谁 也没有预料到会这样。
Shéi yě méiyǒu yùliào dào huì zhèyàng.
Nobody foresaw that it would turn out like this.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 预料
互相吹捧对 谁 都没有好处。
Hùxiāng chuīpěng duì shéi dōu méiyǒu hǎochù.
Flattering each other does nobody any good.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 吹捧
谁 也没想到会是这样的结局。
Shéi yě méi xiǎngdào huì shì zhèyàng de jiéjú.
Nobody imagined it would end like this.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 结局
他执意要去， 谁 也阻拦不住。
Tā zhíyì yào qù, shéi yě zǔlán bu zhù.
He was set on going and nobody could stop him.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 阻拦
这么荒唐的要求， 谁 也不会答应。
Zhème huāngtang de yāoqiú, shéi yě bú huì dāying.
Nobody would agree to such an outrageous demand.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 荒唐
这孩子性格倔强， 谁 的话也不听。
Zhè háizi xìnggé juéjiàng, shéi de huà yě bù tīng.
This child is headstrong and listens to nobody.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 倔强
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From the graded readers
她看了很久，然后一个一个地告诉我他们是 谁 。
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
报关 谁 负责？
Bàoguān shéi fùzé?
Who handles the export declaration?
Travel phrasebook · Shipping and customs
你们还给 谁 供货？
Nǐmen hái gěi shéi gōnghuò?
Who else do you supply?
Travel phrasebook · Trade fairs and factory visits
From the grammar library
谁 appears in 25 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Questions about 谁
How is 谁 used in a sentence?
This page shows 25 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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