誰

See also 谁

Translingual

Stroke order

simpl.		谁
trad.		誰

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 言 (“speak”) + phonetic 隹 – to ask “who?”.

Han character

誰 (radical 149 言+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜口人土 (YROG), four-corner 0061₄, composition ⿰言隹)

1. who? whom? whose? anyone?

Descendants

• 谁

References

• KangXi: page 1165, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35686
• Dae Jaweon: page 1630, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3987, character 10
• Unihan data for U+8AB0

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Cantonese

Hanzi

誰 (simplified 谁, jyutping seoi4, Yale seui4)

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Japanese

Pronoun

誰 (hiragana た, romaji ta)

1. interrogative personal pronoun; who

Pronoun

誰 (hiragana たれ, romaji tare)

1. interrogative personal pronoun; who
   • 1603–1604: Nippo Jisho (page 614)

     Tare. タレ (誰) 誰. 例, Tarega maittaca. l, tareca maitta. (誰が参つたか. まはは, 誰か参つた) 誰が来たか. Tare naritomo. (誰なりとも) 誰であろうとも.

Etymology

From earlier /tare/. The voicing of the initial /t-/ to /d-/ is likely due to analogy to the interrogative demonstrative doko.

Pronoun

誰 (hiragana だれ, romaji dare)

1. interrogative personal pronoun; who

Synonyms

• 何方 (どなた) (honorific)

Kanji

誰 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. interrogative personal pronoun; who

Readings

• On: すい (sui)
• Kun: だれ (dare)

References

• 1980 May 22 [1603–1604], Tadao Doi, Hōyaku Nippo Jisho (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-0008-0021-3:

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Korean

Hanja

誰 (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Mandarin

simpl.		谁
trad.		誰

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

誰 (simplified 谁, pinyin shuí (shui2), shéi (shei2), Wade-Giles shui²)

1. who

   我們的老師是誰？

   Who is our teacher?

Related terms

• 什麼
• 怎麼
• 什麼時候
• 哪裡
• 哪兒

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Vietnamese

Han character

誰 (thùy, thuỳ)