怎么了

Traditional form:

怎麼了

Pinyin (reading):

zěnmele

Definitions:

• What's up?
• What's going on?
• What happened?

Characters:

• 怎 - what? why? how?
• 么 - interrogative particle
• 了 - clear; to finish; particle of completed action

Traditional characters:

• 怎 - what? why? how?
• 麼 - interrogative particle
• 了 - clear; to finish; particle of completed action