What does it mean in Chinese?

What does 什么 mean?

什么 shénme

what; anything

It can also mean

  • (listing or dismissive) things like; whatever (as in 什么钱不钱的)
  • something; anything
  • (used in rhetorical questions) what (nonsense)

Its characters

  1. 什 shén what (as in 什么)
  2. 么 me suffix (as in 什么, 怎么, 这么, 多么)

In a sentence

几两”是什么?

From 十两饺子 · How to order dumplings in Chinese

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