怎么 (怎麼) zěnme
pronoun
how
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
, Subdomain: Function Words
, Concept: Interrogative Pronoun 疑问代词
Notes: Used to form a question by replacing a constituent (Sun 2006, loc. 1866)
Contained in
- 怎么样(怎麼樣) how; how about; how was it; how are things
- 怎么着(怎麼著) how; what
- 怎么办(怎麼辦) what's to be done
- 怎么说呢(怎麼說呢) Why is that?; How come?
- 怎么回事(怎麼回事) what's the matter?; what's going on?; how could that be?; how did that come about?
- 不怎么样(不怎麼樣) indifferent
- 怎么搞的(怎麼搞的) How did it happen?; What's wrong?; What went wrong?; What's up?
- 不怎么(不怎麼) not very; not particularly
- 怎么了(怎麼了) What's up?; What's going on?; What happened?
- 怎么得了(怎麼得了) how can this be?; what's to be done?; what an awful mess!
- 再怎么(再怎麼) no matter how ...
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第二回 Chapter 82 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 21
- 第二回 Chapter 86 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 21
- 第二回 Chapter 31 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 20
- 第三十一回 Chapter 31 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 19
- 第四十七回 Chapter 47 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 18
- 第七十四回 Chapter 74 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 18
- 第二回 Chapter 94 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 17
- 第三十二回 Chapter 32 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 17
- 第三十八回 Chapter 38 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 17
- 第四十九回 Chapter 49 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 16