Shanny Posted July 18, 2012 at 05:11 AM Report Share Posted July 18, 2012 at 05:11 AM Hi! Is there more than one way to write shen me? (what) Other than... 什么 ? I saw it written in other way somewhere, just curious about it. (I don't know so much about writing chinese yet) Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylee Posted July 18, 2012 at 06:44 AM Report Share Posted July 18, 2012 at 06:44 AM Other ways (traditional Chinese) of writing it - 甚麽 and 什麽. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dona Posted September 14, 2012 at 04:43 PM Report Share Posted September 14, 2012 at 04:43 PM 何 in Accient Chinese means shenme in Mandarin. Just the same in Japanese. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted September 14, 2012 at 11:50 PM Report Share Posted September 14, 2012 at 11:50 PM But 何 is hé, not shénme. Do you ever read 何 as shénme? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooironic Posted October 1, 2012 at 02:23 AM Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 at 02:23 AM Of course 何's not read as shénme. @dona was just saying that they have similar meanings. Perhaps the character that @Shanny saw was 啥 shá, the Northern dialect word for "what". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted October 1, 2012 at 03:48 AM Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 at 03:48 AM But they asked about ways to write "shenme", not synonyms for it or words for "what". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daofeishi Posted October 1, 2012 at 04:03 AM Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 at 04:03 AM We shouldn't forget the netspeak form 神马 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted October 2, 2012 at 10:10 PM Report Share Posted October 2, 2012 at 10:10 PM I feel like I should clear something up here. One of the reasons I made the comment I did and asked the question I did is that I'm coming from a language where you could in fact see 何 but not read it as you would expect, so to me, and I assume some other beginners, the statement that 何 is like 甚麽 doesn't mean you can't ever read 何 as "shenme" or write "shemne" as 何. That may just be Japanese doing weird things to my head, though. It seems weird now that I type it all out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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