Usage of the character 怎
zěn
怎
[怎]
- how
zěnme
怎么
[怎麽]
- variant of 怎麼／怎么 (zěnme)
zěnshēng
怎生
[怎生]
- how
- why
zěnnéng
怎能
[怎能]
- how can?
zěnme
怎么
[怎麼]
- how?
- what?
- why?
zěnyàng
怎样
[怎樣]
- how
- what kind
zěnde
怎的
[怎的]
- what for
- why
- how
zěnmele
怎么了
[怎麽了]
- variant of 怎麼了／怎么了 (zěnmele)
zěnmebàn
怎么办
[怎麼辦]
- what's to be done
zěnmele
怎么了
[怎麼了]
- What's up?
- What's going on?
- What happened?
zěnmezhāo
怎么着
[怎麼著]
- what?
- how?
- how about?
- whatever
- also pr. (zěnmezhe)
zěnmeyàng
怎么样
[怎麼樣]
- how?
- how about?
- how was it?
- how are things?
zàizěnme
再怎么
[再怎麼]
- no matter how ...
bùzěnme
不怎么
[不怎麼]
- not very
- not particularly
bùguǎnzěnyàng
不管怎样
[不管怎樣]
- in any case; no matter what
zěnmedéliǎo
怎么得了
[怎麼得了]
- how can this be?
- what's to be done?
- what an awful mess!
cǐhuàzěnjiǎng
此话怎讲
[此話怎講]
- How do you mean?
- How could that be the case?
- How so?
zěnmehuíshì
怎么回事
[怎麼回事]
- what's the matter?
- what's going on?
- how could that be?
- how did that come about?
- what's it all about?
bùzěnmeyàng
不怎么样
[不怎麼樣]
- not up to much
- very indifferent
- nothing great about it
- nothing good to be said about it
zěnmegǎode
怎么搞的
[怎麼搞的]
- How did it happen?
- What's wrong?
- What went wrong?
- What's up?
zěnmeshuōne
怎么说呢
[怎麼說呢]
- Why is that?; How come?
zěnyīgèchóuzìliǎodé
怎一个愁字了得
[怎一個愁字了得]
- (last line of the poem 聲聲慢／声声慢 ( Shēngshēng Màn) by Song poet Li Qingzhao 李清照 ( Lǐ Qīngzhào))
- how can it be expressed in one word, "sorrow"?
- how can words express such sadness?