Character Details
| how | Ascii: — | w521 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 怎么 | zěnme | djun-meh | 3+5 | 什 (亻 person radical + 十 ten) + 么 (丿 slash + 厶 private) | 怎么 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Not Yet Developed | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - how; in what manner | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - How are you today? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Compound Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Structure | Construction | ||||||||||
| left‑right; adverb | 怎 (心 heart radical + 乍 sudden) + 么 (丿 slash + 厶 private) | ||||||||||
| A heart‑felt (心) sudden query (乍) plus the question curl (么) — “how?” | |||||||||||