何许

pronoun

where; what place; (in the compound 何许人) what kind of

Literary or archaic interrogative pronoun. While it can stand alone to mean 'where' (e.g., 来自何许), it is most commonly encountered in the set phrase 何许人 (hé xǔ rén), which originally meant 'a person from where' but has shifted to mean 'what kind of person' or used rhetorically to question someone's identity or background.