为什么

Pinyin
wèishénme
English
why
HSK level
HSK 2

Example sentences

为什么 is pronounced wèishénme and means “why”. It is one of the words in the HSK 2 vocabulary, a level of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s standardised Chinese proficiency test. Recognising a word on a page and recalling it when you need it are different skills, and only the second survives a conversation — which is why LexiTrail shows you 为什么 again just before you would have forgotten it, rather than on a fixed schedule.

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