Character Details
| how? | Ascii: 20844 | w285 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 怎 | zěn | zen | 3 | 心 (heart) + 乍 (sudden) → how | 怎 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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"How could you do this to me?" the man asked as his wife sawed into his heart with her final words before breaking up. | ||||||||||
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| - How do you write this character? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 61 - 心 | xīn | heart | heart | heart shape | 心 忘 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 心 (heart) + 乍 (sudden) → how | 心 (semantic origin) | 乍 (phonetic) | phonetic from 乍 | ||||||||