怎 zěn
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 心 — heart
- Made of
- 乍 first time, for the first time, suddenly 心 heart
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
怎么
zěnme
how; why
Characters in this word
Example phrases
- 你怎么来学校？ Nǐ zěnme lái xuéxiào? How do you get to school?
- 这个字怎么读？ Zhège zì zěnme dú? How do you read this character?
- 你怎么了？ Nǐ zěnme le? What's wrong with you?
Related words
- 干什么 gànshénme what for? what are you doing?
- 没什么 méishénme it's nothing, never mind
- 什么 shénme what
- 哪些 nǎxiē which ones
- 是不是 shìbushì is it or not? (tag question)
- 哪儿 nǎr where
- 还是 háishi still; or (in questions)
- 哪里 nǎlǐ where; not at all (modest reply)
- 哪 nǎ which
- 那些 nàxiē those
- 那儿 nàr there
- 那里 nàlǐ there