为什么 — stroke order
Learn how to write 为什么 (wèishénme), which means “why?”. It is written with 3 characters and 11 strokes in total. In traditional Chinese it is written 為什麼. Each character below is animated in the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap any character to replay it, or use “Play all strokes” to watch the whole word written in order.
Character by character
| Character | Pinyin | 注音 | Meaning | Strokes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 为 | wèi | ㄨㄟˋ | to do, to act | 4 |
| 什 | shén | ㄕㄣˊ | what? mixed, miscellaneous | 4 |
| 么 | me | ㄇㄜ˙ | interrogative particle | 3 |