Tiếng ViệtTiếng Việt▼
Stroke order
是 is written in 9 strokes.
- 是
Senses
- to be (followed by substantives only)
- correct; right; true
- (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
- (adverb for emphatic assertion)
Example sentences
- 他是我的朋友。Tā shì wǒ de péngyǒu.He is my friend.
- 这是我的书。Zhè shì wǒ de shū.This is my book.
Related words
是 is pronounced shì and means “là”. It belongs to the HSK 1 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 是 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.