干什么

Character by character

• 干gàn3 strokesHSK 1 traditional 乾oppose, offend; invade; dried
• 什shén4 strokesHSK 1file of ten soldiers; mixed, miscellaneous
• 么me3 strokesHSK 1 traditional 幺interrogative particle; small

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 在干什么？

  Zài gàn shén me

  What are you doing?

  Listen

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 干什么. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 什么shén meHSK 1

  what?; something; anything

• 怎么zěn meHSK 1

  how?; what?; why?

• 那么nà meHSK 2

  like that; in that way; or so; so; so very much; about; in that case

• 这么zhè meHSK 2

  so much; this much; how much?; this way; like this

• 为什么wèi shén meHSK 2

  why?; for what reason?

• 干gànHSK 1

  tree trunk; main part of sth; to manage; to work; to do; capable; cadre; to kill (slang); to fuck (vulgar); (coll.) pissed off; annoyed

• 怎么样zěn me yàngHSK 2

  how?; how about?; how was it?; how are things?

• 怎么办zěn me bànHSK 2

  what's to be done

• 没什么méi shén meHSK 1

  nothing; it doesn't matter; it's nothing; never mind

• 多么duō meHSK 2

  how (wonderful etc); what (a great idea etc); however (difficult it may be etc); (in interrogative sentences) how (much etc); to what extent

• 什么样shén me yàngHSK 2

  what kind?; what sort?

• 干净gān jìngHSK 1

  clean; neat

• 要么yào meHSK 6

  or; either one or the other

• 干脆gān cuìHSK 5

  candid; direct and to the point; simply; just; might as well

• 干扰gān rǎoHSK 5

  to disturb; to interfere; perturbation; interference (physics)

• 干吗gàn máHSK 3

  see 干嘛

• 干涉gān shèHSK 6

  to interfere; to meddle; interference

• 饼干bǐng gānHSK 5

  biscuit; cracker; cookie

• 干预gān yùHSK 5

  to meddle; to intervene; intervention

• 干燥gān zàoHSK 7

  to dry (of weather, paint, cement etc); desiccation; dull; uninteresting; arid

• 不怎么bù zěn meHSK 6

  not very; not particularly

• 若干ruò gānHSK 7

  a certain number or amount; how many?; how much?

• 干部gàn bùHSK 7

  cadre; official; officer; manager

• 干旱gān hànHSK 7

  drought; arid; dry