what are you doing? in Mandarin

You can remember the meaning of 干什么 with this easy mnemonic:

What are you doing? Drying (干) the clothes with what (什么)? Fire?

Using mnemonics to remember the meaning of Chinese characters like can have an enormous impact on how long to learn Mandarin it takes.

• 干
• 什
• 么

• 干吗
• 没什么
• 干扰
• 要么
• 怎么办
• 什么
• 干脆
• 怎么
• 干掉
• 干净
• 饼干
• 怎么样
• 什么的
• 那么
• 为什么
• 什么样

The reading of 干什么 is gàn shén me.

You can remember how to say 干什么 with this useful mnemonic:

Might as well just point a gun (gàn) at the pile of clothes and burn them! I'm so ashamed (shén) that I've failed this badly as a mother (me).

Using mnemonics to remember the reading of Chinese vocabulary like has a huge impact on how long to learn Mandarin it takes.

Learning vocabulary like what are you doing? and the rest of the Mandarin written language can take as little as one year, or as long as a lifetime. Our Mandarin language learners find that using helpful mnemonics can aid retention of Chinese Mandarin vocabulary and characters.

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