他为什么看上去很黑？

Why does he look black?

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 他 tā
  1. (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his
  2. (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日 tārì and 他人 tārén)
2 为什么 wèishénme
  1. why?
  2. for what reason?
=3 看上去 kànshangqu
  1. it would appear
  2. it seems (that)
=3 看上去 kànshàngqù
  1. to look and perceive
  2. to seem as if; to appear
4 很 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
=5 黑 Hēi abbr. for Heilongjiang province 黑龍江 Hēilóngjiāng
=5 黑 hēi
  1. black
  2. dark
  3. sinister
  4. secret
  5. shady
  6. illegal
  7. to hide (sth) away
  8. to vilify
  9. (loanword) to hack (computing)