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Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

为何 [wèihé]
  1. 1. why; for what reason

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

为何 [wèihé]
  1. 1. 代 [文] 为什么
    为何如此猖狂?

Examples

为何出此下策?
Why do you resort to such an unwise move?
小组长责问他为何不来开会。
The group leader called him to account for his absence from the meeting.
为何
天色已明,为何屋内兀自点着灯?
Why are you so late?
为何这么迟?
We wondered why the business was so quiet today.
我们想知道,为何今天的生意这般冷清。
to be at a loss (as to how/why {etc}...)
(对如何/为何{等}…)不知所措
One may doubt whether the small carbon radicals are still present.
有人可能会疑惑这小碳基为何依然存在。
My classmate, by some chance, got the job that I wanted.
不知为何,我的同学得到了我梦寐以求的工作。

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