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怎

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zěn

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Definitions

  1. 1. how

Example Sentences

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Source: Tatoeba.org (ID 3701806)

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Words Containing 怎

不怎么样
bù zěn me yàng

not up to much

怎么说呢
zěn me shuō ne

Why is that?

怎样
zěn yàng

how

怎么搞的
zěn me gǎo de

How did it happen?

此话怎讲
cǐ huà zěn jiǎng

How do you mean?

不管怎样
bù guǎn zěn yàng

in any case

怎么
zěn me

how?

怎么了
zěn me le

What's up?

怎么回事
zěn me huí shì

what's going on?

怎么着
zěn me zhāo

what?

不怎么
bù zěn me

not very

怎能
zěn néng

how can?

怎的
zěn de

what for

怎么得了
zěn me dé liǎo

how can this be?

再怎么
zài zěn me

no matter how ...

怎么样
zěn me yàng

how?

怎么办
zěn me bàn

what's to be done

怎一个愁字了得
zěn yī gè chóu zì liǎo dé

(last line of the poem 聲聲慢|声声慢[shēng shēng màn] by Song poet Li Qingzhao 李清照[lǐ qīng zhào])

怎生
zěn shēng

how

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