怎
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how
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 心 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 怎
- Common rank
- #2,315
- Unicode
- U+600E
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 怎
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 怎么 | how?; what?; why? | |
| 怎么 | variant of 怎麼|怎么[zen3 me5] | |
| 不管怎样 | in any case; no matter what | |
| 怎一个愁字了得 | (last line of the poem 聲聲慢|声声慢[Sheng1 sheng1 Man4] by Song poet Li Qingzhao 李清照[Li3 Qing1 … | |
| 怎么回事 | what's the matter?; what's going on?; how could that be?; how did that come about?; what's… | |
| 怎么得了 | how can this be?; what's to be done?; what an awful mess! | |
| 不怎么样 | not up to much; very indifferent; nothing great about it; nothing good to be said about it | |
| 此话怎讲 | How do you mean?; How could that be the case?; How so? | |
| 怎生 | how; why | |
| 不怎么 | not very; not particularly | |
| 怎能 | how can? | |
| 怎么着 | what?; how?; how about?; whatever; also pr. [zen3 me5 zhe5] | |
| 怎么了 | What's up?; What's going on?; What happened? | |
| 怎么了 | variant of 怎麼了|怎么了[zen3 me5 le5] | |
| 怎的 | what for; why; how | |
| 怎么办 | what's to be done | |
| 怎么样 | how?; how about?; how was it?; how are things? | |
| 怎么搞的 | How did it happen?; What's wrong?; What went wrong?; What's up? | |
| 怎样 | how; what kind | |
| 再怎么 | no matter how ... |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 乍 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 乍 sound part | first time, for the first time, suddenly | |
| 诈 | to cheat, to defraud; sly, treacherous | |
| 窄 | narrow, tight; narrow-minded | |
| 咋 | question-forming particle: why? what? how?; to bite; loud | |
| 蚱 | grasshopper; locust, cicada | |
| 昨 | yesterday; formerly, in the past | |
| 柞 | beech, oak; evergreen; to clear away trees | |
| 酢 | a toast to the host | |
| 怍 | ashamed | |
| 祚 | throne; happiness, blessings | |
| 舴 | dinghy, small boat | |
| 苲 | hornwort | |
| 迮 | to press; hasty; cramped | |
| 痄 | scrofulous swellings or lumps | |
| 砟 | stone tablet; monument | |
| 笮 | boards that support roof tiles | |
| 胙 | meat offered in sacrifice to one's ancestors | |
| 阼 | the steps leading to the eastern door |