Chinese Notes

什么 (什麼) shénme

shénme pronoun what (forming a question)
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words , Concept: Interrogative Pronoun 疑问代词
Notes: Traditional: 什麼; used to form a question by replacing the constituent in question (CC-CEDICT '什麼' 1; Guoyu '什麼' 1; Sun 2006, loc. 1866).
shénme pronoun what; that
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
Notes: As a determiner, not forming a question. Example: 这没有什么对不起人的地方。 'There is nothing to be sorry about here.' (Lao She, 2003, p. 174; Guoyu '什麼' 2).
shénme pronoun what (forming a question)
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words , Concept: Interrogative Pronoun 疑问代词
Notes: Traditional: 甚麼; same as traditional 什麼 (Guoyu '甚麼' 1)
shénme pronoun what (forming a question)
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
Notes: Traditional: 甚麼; same as traditional 什麼 (Guoyu '甚麼' 2)

什么好说(什麼好說) pertinent to say
没有什么不可能(沒有什麼不可能) nothing is impossible; there's nothing impossible about it
凭什么(憑什麼) (spoken) why?; for which reason?
什么事(什麼事) what?; which?
什么人(什麼人) who?; what (kind of) person?
没有什么(沒有什麼) it is nothing
什么样(什麼樣) what kind?; what sort?; what appearance?
什么的(什麼的) and so on; and what not
什么地方(什麼地方) somewhere; someplace; where
葫芦里卖的是什么药(葫蘆裡賣的是什麼藥) what has (he) got up (his) sleeve?; what's going on?
都什么年代了(都什麼年代了) What decade are you living in? / That's so out-of-date!
没什么(沒甚麼) nothing; it doesn't matter; never mind ; nothing; it doesn't matter; it's nothing; never mind
林子大了，什么鸟都有(林子大了，什麼鳥都有) it takes all sorts (to make a world)
干什么(幹什麼) what are you doing?; what's he up to?
为什么(為什麼) why
什么时候(什麼時候) when?; at what time?
什么风把你吹来的(什麼風把你吹來的) What brings you here?

Truncated for common words