使shǐto make (someone do)
How 使 is written
Stroke order matters: it sets the proportions of the character and how a reader will parse it. In the trainer these same boxes reject a stroke drawn out of turn.
Examples
他使我非常生气。
Tā shǐ wǒ fēicháng shēngqì.
He made me extremely angry.
- 他tāhe
- 使shǐto make (someone do)
- 我wǒI
- 非常fēichángextremely
- 生气shēngqìto get angry
这个消息使大家很高兴。
Zhè gè xiāo xi shǐ dàjiā hěn gāoxìng.
The news made everyone very happy.
- 这zhèthis
- 个gègeneral measure word
- 消息xiāo xinews
- 使shǐto make (someone do)
- 大家dàjiāeveryone
- 很hěnvery
- 高兴gāoxìnghappy
Not to be confused with
Characters that look or sound alike. The trainer mixes them into the answer options for exactly that reason — so the difference sticks.
- 十shíten
- 是shìto be
- 诗