What does he want to do?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
干嘛
what are you doing?
IN A VIDEO干嘛
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
what are you doing?
02
whatever for?
03
why on earth?
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 干嘛 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 干嘛 appears in 37 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Why are you meowing?
What have you come here for?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 干嘛.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 干嘛.
Directly before
- 在干嘛4
- 你干嘛4
- 我干嘛4
- 这儿干嘛3
- 钱干嘛1
Directly after
- 干嘛呢8
- 干嘛那1
- 干嘛学1
- 干嘛一脸1
- 干嘛拍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 干嘛
What does 干嘛 mean in Chinese?
干嘛 (gànmá) means what are you doing?.
How do you pronounce 干嘛?
干嘛 is pronounced gànmá.
Is 干嘛 an HSK word?
干嘛 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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