什么样

Character by character

• 什shén4 strokesHSK 1file of ten soldiers; mixed, miscellaneous
• 么me3 strokesHSK 1 traditional 幺interrogative particle; small
• 样yàng10 strokesHSK 1 traditional 樣shape, form, pattern, style

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

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 什么样. 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

• 这样zhè yàngHSK 2

  this kind of; so; this way; like this; such

• 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

• 一样yī yàngHSK 1

  same; like; equal to; the same as; just like

• 为什么wèi shén meHSK 2

  why?; for what reason?

• 那样nà yàngHSK 2

  that kind; that sort

• 怎样zěn yàngHSK 2

  how; what kind

• 同样tóng yàngHSK 2

  same; equal; equivalent

• 样子yàng ziHSK 2

  appearance; manner; pattern; model

• 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

• 样yàngHSK 6

  manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type

• 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

• 要么yào meHSK 6

  or; either one or the other

• 干什么gàn shén meHSK 1

  what are you doing?; what's he up to?

• 模样mú yàngHSK 5

  look; style; appearance; approximation; about; also pr. [mó yàng]

• 样本yàng běnHSK 7

  sample; specimen

• 花样huā yàngHSK 7

  pattern; way of doing sth; trick; ruse; fancy-style (as in 花样滑冰 figure skating)

• 榜样bǎng yàngHSK 7

  example; model

• 样品yàng pǐnHSK 7

  sample; specimen

• 一模一样yī mú yī yàngHSK 6

  exactly the same (idiom); carbon copy; also pr. [yī mó yī yàng]