怎么
zěn me 3–5
how?; what?; why?
- Characters
- 2
- 怎 · 么
- Syllables
- 2
- zěn me
- Frequency
- Very common
- corpus count 128
Part of speech: r
Character by character
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
怎么了？
Zěn me le
What's the matter?
怎么样？
Zěn me yàng
How?
怎么会有？
Zěn me huì yǒu
Why would there be?
你怎么了？
Nǐ zěn me le
What is the matter with you?
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 怎么. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 什么shén meHSK 1
what?; something; anything
- 那么nà meHSK 2
like that; in that way; or so; so; so very much; about; in that case
- 这么zhè meHSK 2
so much; this much; how much?; this way; like this
- 为什么wèi shén meHSK 2
why?; for what reason?
- 怎样zěn yàngHSK 2
how; what kind
- 怎么样zěn me yàngHSK 2
how?; how about?; how was it?; how are things?
- 怎么办zěn me bànHSK 2
what's to be done
- 没什么méi shén meHSK 1
nothing; it doesn't matter; it's nothing; never mind
- 多么duō meHSK 2
how (wonderful etc); what (a great idea etc); however (difficult it may be etc); (in interrogative sentences) how (much etc); to what extent
- 什么样shén me yàngHSK 2
what kind?; what sort?
- 要么yào meHSK 6
or; either one or the other
- 干什么gàn shén meHSK 1
what are you doing?; what's he up to?
- 不怎么bù zěn meHSK 6
not very; not particularly
- 不怎么样bù zěn me yàngHSK 6
not up to much; very indifferent; nothing great about it; nothing good to be said about it