怎

Translingual

Han character

怎 (radical 61 心+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 人尸心 (OSP), four-corner 8033₁)

1. what? why? how?

References

• KangXi: page 379, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10431
• Dae Jaweon: page 708, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2280, character 10
• Unihan data for U+600E

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Cantonese

Hanzi

怎 (Yale jam2)

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Japanese

Kanji

怎

Readings

• On: しん (shin), そ (so)
• Kun: いかで (ikade)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

怎 (pinyin zěn (zen3), Wade-Giles tsen³)

Compounds

• 怎地, 怎的
• 怎敢
• 怎好
• 怎么
• 怎么得了
• 怎么样
• 怎么着
• 怎奈
• 怎生
• 怎样

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Vietnamese

Han character

怎 (chẩm, chẩn, tẩn, trẫm)