Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

1933 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 15

Meaning: who, someone, somebody

Kunyomi: だれ たれ

Onyomi: スイ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: ごんべん

Meaning: speech

Strokes: 7

Examples

Examples with audio

何(すいか)   asking a person's identity

(だれ)   who

Onyomi Examples

スイカ challenging (an unknown person), asking a person's identity

Kunyomi Examples

だれ who

だれか someone, somebody

どこの どこのだれ who the heck, just who

だれだれ so-and-so, who?, which people?

だれ who

だれかれ this or that person, anybody, many people

だれ who

が為に たがために for whom