Translingual
Stroke order
Han character
怎 (Kangxi radical 61, 心 +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹尸心 (HSP ), four-corner 80331 , composition ⿱乍 心 )
Derived characters
References
Kangxi Dictionary: page 379 , character 17
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10431
Dae Jaweon: page 708, character 1
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2280, character 10
Unihan data for U+600E
Chinese
Glyph origin
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声 ) : phonetic 乍 ( OC *zraːɡs) + semantic 心 ( “ heart ” ) .
Etymology
First attested in the word 怎生 [10th c.] (Yuan et al., 1996 ).
Contraction of 作 (MC tsak ) + some variant of 物 (MC mjut , “thing; what”), literally “to do what” (Norman, 1988 ). This is evidenced in forms found in the Tang and Song dynasties (Yuan et al., 1996 ): 作勿生 (MC tsak mjut sraeng ) [8th c.] , 作沒生 (MC tsak mwot sraeng ) [8th c.] , 作摩 (MC tsak ma ) [10th c.] , 作麼 (MC tsak maX ) [10th c.] .
Pronunciation
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Definitions
(deprecated template usage ) 怎
how ; why
what
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of
怎麼 (“how”)
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Variety
Location
Words
Classical Chinese
何 , 如何
Formal (Written Standard Chinese )
怎麼
Northeastern Mandarin
Beijing
怎麼
Taiwan
怎麼
Singapore
怎麼
Jilu Mandarin
Jinan
怎麼
Central Plains Mandarin
Xi'an
咋 , 咋樣兒
Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)
咋 , 咋的個 , 咋麼 , 咋麼個
Southwestern Mandarin
Chengdu
咋 , 咋個 , 啷個
Chongqing
啷個
Wuhan
麼 , 麼樣 , 哪樣
Jianghuai Mandarin
Yangzhou
井幹
Hefei
怎樣 , 怎
Cantonese
Guangzhou
點 , 點樣
Hong Kong
點 , 點樣
Taishan
幾何
Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)
點
Singapore (Guangfu)
點
Gan
Nanchang
啷 , 啷樣
Hakka
Meixian
仰般 , 仰仔
Wuhua (Meilin)
仰般
Heyuan (Bendihua)
仰來
Miaoli (N. Sixian)
仰般 , 仰仔
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)
仰仔
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)
仰般
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)
仰脣 , 仰
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)
仰般 , 仰般形
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)
仰子
Huizhou
Jixi
采翹
Jin
Taiyuan
咋 , 咋底
Eastern Min
Fuzhou
怎怎 , 怎 , 怎其
Fuqing
安難 , 怎生
Singapore (Fuqing)
安難
Southern Min
Xiamen
按怎 , 怎影
Taipei
按怎
Penang (Hokkien)
按怎
Singapore (Hokkien)
按怎
Manila (Hokkien)
障仔 , 按怎 , 怎
Chaozhou
在生 , 乜生 , 做呢 , 做物
Raoping
做呢
Shantou
做呢
Jieyang
做呢
Haifeng
做呢
Singapore (Teochew)
做呢 , 做物
Batam (Teochew)
做呢物 , 做物
Wenchang
怎作 , 作乜
Haikou
咋作
Singapore (Hainanese)
怎作
Wu
Shanghai
哪能
Suzhou
捺亨
Ningbo
咋 , 咋貌 , 咋貌介
Wenzhou
訾那 , 訾那能
Xiang
Changsha
何什 , 何裡
Shuangfeng
麼家
Compounds
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References
Japanese
Kanji
怎
(Hyōgai kanji )
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Readings
Etymology 1
Adverb
Alternative spellings
争で 如何で
怎( いかで ) • (ikade )
how
Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 怎 – see the following entry.
【どう 】
[adverb] in what manner, how
[adverb] what about ... (used to make a suggestion)
[interjection] Casual greeting: Howdy? What's new? What's up?
[interjection] Casual question: It works? Is it OK?
[interjection] Call out to horses or cows to control/stop them: Ho ! Hoy ! Whoa !
Alternative spellings 如何 , 怎う
(This term, 怎 , is an alternative spelling ( rare ) of the above term.)
Vietnamese
Han character
怎 : Hán Nôm readings: chẩm , chẩn , tẩn , trẫm
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References