Keyword
who?
Info
FrequencyTop 100-200
Type
Jōyō 
?
KankenLevel 2
Heisig598
Readings
だれ
(47%)
たれ
(17%)
(17%)
Composed of
say
old bird
Mnemonic

You know how sometimes animal voices can imitate human speech? Here we have an old bird — a pidgeon — that is constantly saying who? Who? Whoooo? If you listen closely to the sounds that pidgeons make don't they actually sound a little like "who"?

Used in vocabulary (49 in total)
someone; somebody
everyone; anyone; no one; nobody
Examples (200 in total)
Who are you?
Who do you want to talk to?
With whom did you talk?