IDENTITY
怎zěnhow (in questions)
HSK 1Top 300
CORE MEANING
how (in questions)
- Part of speech
- pronoun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.howHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 心heart radical (xīn)
- strokes
- 9
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱乍心
- gives the sound zěn (historical)
- heart; wondering
USAGE
Common words
怎么zěnmehow
怎么样zěnmeyànghow about
怎么办zěnme bànwhat to do
Graded examples
你最近怎么样？Nǐ zuìjìn zěnmeyàng?HSK2
How have you been lately?
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
A sudden (乍) question in the heart (心) — how?
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #300
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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