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Hanzi Character Search: 怎

600E

怎
what? why? how?
Radical 𢖩
Strokes (without radical) 5 Total Strokes 9
Mandarin reading zěn Cantonese reading zam2
Japanese on reading shin so Japanese kun reading ikade
Korean reading Vietnamese reading chẩn

CEDICT Entries:

   [ zěn choú ]    (last line of the poem 聲聲慢|声声慢[Sheng1 sheng1 Man4] by Song poet Li Qingzhao 李清照[Li3 Qing1 zhao4]), how can it be expressed in one word, "sorrow"?, how can words express such sadness?
   [ zěn yàng ]    how, what kind
   [ zěn me ]    how?, what?, why?
   [ zěn me le ]    What's up?, What's going on?, What happened?
   [ zěn me huí shì ]    what's the matter?, what's going on?, how could that be?, how did that come about?, what's it all about?
   [ zěn me ]    how can this be?, what's to be done?, what an awful mess!
   [ zěn me gaǒ de ]    How did it happen?, What's wrong?, What went wrong?, What's up?
   [ zěn me yàng ]    how?, how about?, how was it?, how are things?
   [ zěn me zhaō ]    what?, how?, how about?, whatever, also pr. [zen3 me5 zhe5]
   [ zěn me shuō ne ]    Why is that?, How come?
   [ zěn me bàn ]    what's to be done
   [ zěn me ]    variant of 怎麼|怎么[zen3 me5]
   [ zěn me le ]    variant of 怎麼了|怎么了[zen3 me5 le5]
⇒    [ zěn me ]    not very, not particularly
⇒    [ zěn me yàng ]    not up to much, very indifferent, nothing great about it, nothing good to be said about it
⇒    [ guǎn zěn yàng ]    in any case, no matter what
⇒    [ zaì zěn me ]    no matter how ...
⇒    [ huà zěn jiǎng ]    How do you mean?, How could that be the case?, How so?

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