what; how many
Builds 34 distinct compound words — ranked #82 of 100 for productivity.
- 音 on
- カ
- 訓 kun
- なに・なん
The question word. Before a counter it asks how many — 何人 how many people, 何回 how many times.
The ten most common compounds built on 何. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.
Where 何 leads
Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 何. Each one opens its own map.
Words built on 何
Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.