"怎" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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(Bushou)
Strokes 4
Composition
Strokes 9
Structure
Decomp. 乍心
Prononciation
Mandarin zěn
Entry Methods
Pinyin zen3
Kanji /
Cangjie
OSP
人尸心
Sijiao 8033.1
Wubi THFN
CNS 11643 1-512B
Encodages (hexa)
Unicode U+600E
GB2312 D4F5
BIG5 ABE7
 zěn how
Results beginning with 怎
 zěn me variant of 怎麼|怎么[zen3 me5]
 zěn yàng how / what kind
 zěn néng how can?
 zěn de what for / why / how
 zěn shēng how / why
 zěn me bàn what's to be done
 zěn me yàng how? / how about? / how was it? / how are things?
 zěn me zhāo what? / how? / how about? / whatever / also pr. [zen3 me5 zhe5]
 zěn me le variant of 怎麼了|怎么了[zen3 me5 le5]
 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 dé liǎo how can this be? / what's to be done? / what an awful mess!
 zěn me gǎo de How did it happen? / What's wrong? / What went wrong? / What's up?
 zěn me shuō ne Why is that? / How come?
 zěn yī gè chóu zì liǎo dé (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?
Approximate Results for 怎
 bù zěn me not very / not particularly
 zài zěn me no matter how ...
 bù zěn me yàng not up to much / very indifferent / nothing great about it / nothing good to be said about it
 bù guǎn zěn yàng in any case / no matter what
 cǐ huà zěn jiǎng How do you mean? / How could that be the case? / How so?
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