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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 怎么样

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
怎么样 zěn me yàng - how?
- how about?
- how was it?
- how are things?

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 2 197 2,537 1,622

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]
yàng- manner
- pattern
- way
- appearance
- shape
- classifier: kind, type

Other Words Containing 怎么样

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
怎么样 1 2 197 2,537 1,622