Kanji 何 — "What"
Here is what 何 means, how it is read, what it is built from, and a story that makes "What" stick.
How it is read
か
the reading borrowed from Chinese — usually appears in compound words
なに, なん, なに-, なん-
the native Japanese reading — usually appears when the kanji stands alone
How to remember it
Kanji are not random strokes. Learn the parts and the whole becomes easy. Put the parts together into one picture. The stranger it is, the harder it is to forget.
Wonder What Mr. T is capable of? Anything is Possible!
- 亻 Mr. T
A variant form of 人. It looks like the letter T, so we call it Mr. T.
- 可 Possible
In this Town Block, people with big Mouths think anything is Possible!
Words that use 何
12 of 20 words in the app that contain this kanji — the most common ones first.
- 何 なに what
- 何で なんで Why, What for
- 何か なにか something, anything
- 何とか なんとか somehow, anyhow, one way or another
- 何でも なんでも by all means, everything
- 何だか なんだか a little, somewhat, somehow
- 何年 なんねん what year
- 何回も なんかいも many times
- 何分 なにぶん by all means, please
- 何日 なんにち which day of the month, how many days
- 何歳 なんさい how old (polite)
- 何気ない なにげない casual, unconcerned
Want 何 to still be there next month?
Reading it once is not remembering it. The app brings each kanji back right before you would have forgotten it.
