Kana: なに

what

Example sentence

これは何ですか。

これはなんですか。

What is this?

What 何 means

(なに) is a Japanese word meaning “what”. It belongs to the Pronouns & Questions topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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