怎么
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

怎么

zěnme

how?

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

how?

02

what?

03

why?

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Usage notes and example sentences are hand-written, so they exist for only a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 怎么

What does 怎么 mean in Chinese?

怎么 (zěnme) means how?.

How do you pronounce 怎么?

怎么 is pronounced zěnme.

Is 怎么 an HSK word?

怎么 is on the HSK 1 list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

What part of speech is 怎么?

怎么 is used as a 代词 (pronoun) in Chinese.

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