問著 wenˋ zhe˙

(Asked, Asking)

Asking, Asked

為什麼

weiˋ shenˊ me˙

(Why)

Why

什麼 shenˊ me˙

(Any, What)

What, Any, What?

問

Ask, Inquire, Problem, Question

Ask, Question, Problem, Inquire

著

Anxious, Apply, Author, Bear, Become, Catch, Composer, Focus, Get to, Land, Move, Poet, Set forth, Start, Touch, Verb Ending, Wear, Writer

Become, Get to, Verb Ending, (Zhao1), Bear, Anxious, (Zhao2), Catch fire, (Zhu4), Author, Writer, Poet, Composer, Set forth, (Zhuo2), Wear, Start, Move, Apply, Focus, Touch pen to paper, Land, Touch Down

為

Act, And so, As, Because, Cause, Create, Do, For, For the sake, For this reason, Handle, Manage, Serve, To

For, To, As, And so, Cause, Because, For this reason, For The Sake Of, (Wei4), Act, Do, Serve, Create, Manage, Handle

什

Miscellaneous, Mixed, Squad, What

What, Mixed, Miscellaneous, Squad Of Ten Soldiers

麼

Interrogative, What, Why

What?, (Ma2), Why, What, (Ma5), Interrogative, (Mo2)