Pinyin Syllable

Chinese characters pronounced shei

Learn common Chinese characters pronounced shei, including 谁 shéi / shuí. Compare tones, meanings, traditional forms, words, and example sentences.

How to Pronounce This Syllable

For shei, curl the tongue back on sh and join it smoothly to ei; keep it as a single syllable and hold the tone steady.

Curl the tongue back for sh. English speakers often make it too flat.

Settle the final ei into a steady mouth shape first, then lay the tone on top.

Only one common character is read shei (谁 shéi / shuí) — focus on locking in its tone.

shei turns up here with 1 different tone; a change of tone usually means a different character, so the groups below are split by tone.

Taking the 2nd tone here: 谁 (1 in total). Lock this tone in your ear before the meaning.

Seeing shei inside whole words makes it clear which character is meant — here are common ones.

1 common character in this group.