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There are 13 total results for your 怎麼 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

怎麼


怎么

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zěn me
    zen3 me5
tsen me
 somo
how?; what?; why?
why? how?

怎麼了


怎么了

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zěn me le
    zen3 me5 le5
tsen me le
What's up?; What's going on?; What happened?

怎麼樣


怎么样

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zěn me yàng
    zen3 me5 yang4
tsen me yang
how?; how about?; how was it?; how are things?

怎麼著


怎么着

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zěn me zhāo
    zen3 me5 zhao1
tsen me chao
what?; how?; how about?; whatever; also pr. [zen3 me5 zhe5]

怎麼辦


怎么办

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zěn me bàn
    zen3 me5 ban4
tsen me pan
what's to be done

不怎麼


不怎么

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bù zěn me
    bu4 zen3 me5
pu tsen me
not very; not particularly

再怎麼


再怎么

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zài zěn me
    zai4 zen3 me5
tsai tsen me
no matter how ...

怎麼回事


怎么回事

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zěn me huí shì
    zen3 me5 hui2 shi4
tsen me hui shih
what's the matter?; what's going on?; how could that be?; how did that come about?; what's it all about?

怎麼得了


怎么得了

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zěn me dé liǎo
    zen3 me5 de2 liao3
tsen me te liao
how can this be?; what's to be done?; what an awful mess!

怎麼搞的


怎么搞的

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zěn me gǎo de
    zen3 me5 gao3 de5
tsen me kao te
How did it happen?; What's wrong?; What went wrong?; What's up?

怎麼說呢


怎么说呢

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zěn me shuō ne
    zen3 me5 shuo1 ne5
tsen me shuo ne
Why is that?; How come?

不怎麼樣


不怎么样

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bù zěn me yàng
    bu4 zen3 me5 yang4
pu tsen me yang
not up to much; very indifferent; nothing great about it; nothing good to be said about it

Variations:
作麼生
什麼生
怎麼生

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 somosan
    そもさん
(interjection) {Buddh} (when posing a question in a Zen dialogue) consider the following; can you answer this?

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 13 results for "怎麼" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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