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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 怎么

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
怎么 zěn me - how?
- what?
- why?
怎么 zěn me - variant of 怎麼|怎么[zen3 me5]

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
1 1 55 203 100

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
zěn- how
yāo- surname Yao
yāo- youngest
- most junior
- tiny
- one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military)
- one or ace on dice or dominoes
- variant of 吆[yao1], to shout
- exclamatory final particle
ma- interrogative final particle
me- suffix, used to form interrogative 什麼|什么[shen2 me5], what?, indefinite 這麼|这么[zhe4 me5] thus, etc
me- variant of 麼|么[me5]

Other Words Containing 怎么

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
怎么 1 1 55 203 100
怎么样 1 2 197 2,537 1,622
怎么办 - 2 487 2,359 1,034
怎么着 - - 4,674 21,402 11,685
不怎么 - 6 7,764 9,621 5,110
怎么得了 - - 69,457 68,589 39,209