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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

为啥

wèishá

dialectal equivalent of 为什么

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

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dialectal equivalent of 为什么

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 为啥 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 为啥 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

他为啥生气?tā wèi shá shēng qì?

Why is he angry?

你为啥还不结婚?nǐ wèi shá hái bù jié hūn?

Why aren't you married yet?

为啥汤姆要吃这些药片?wèi shá tāng mǔ yào chī zhè xiē yào piàn?

Why does Tom take those pills?

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 为啥.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 为啥.

Directly before

  • 想不通为啥1
  • 他为啥1
  • 她为啥1
  • 你为啥1
  • 明白为啥1

Directly after

  • 为啥不1
  • 为啥没人1
  • 为啥哭泣1
  • 为啥生气1
  • 为啥如此1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 为啥

What does 为啥 mean in Chinese?

为啥 (wèishá) means dialectal equivalent of 为什么.

How do you pronounce 为啥?

为啥 is pronounced wèishá.

Is 为啥 an HSK word?

为啥 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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