谁

誰

shéi

pronoun HSK 1 #78

Meanings

讠(speech) + 隹 (short-tailed bird) — asking 'who said that?'

Nǐ shì shéi?

Who are you?

Shéi xiǎng qù?

Who wants to go?

Zhè shì shéi de shū?

Whose book is this?

grammar

In Chinese, question words like 谁 stay in the same position as the answer would. 谁来了？(Who came?) → 他来了。(He came.) No word-order change needed.

usage

Both shéi and shuí are accepted pronunciations. shéi is more common in everyday speech.

谁 shéi