怎么着

Traditional form:

怎麼著

Pinyin (reading):

zěnmezhāo

Definitions:

• what?
• how?
• how about?
• whatever
• also pr. (zěnmezhe)

Characters:

• 怎 - what? why? how?
• 么 - interrogative particle
• 着 - to make a move, to take action

Traditional characters:

• 怎 - what? why? how?
• 麼 - interrogative particle
• 著 - to show, to prove, to make known