怎么样

Character by character

• 怎zěn9 strokesHSK 1what? why? how?
• 么me3 strokesHSK 1 traditional 幺interrogative particle; small
• 样yàng10 strokesHSK 1 traditional 樣shape, form, pattern, style

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 怎么样？

  Zěn me yàng

  How?

  Listen

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 怎么样. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 什么shén meHSK 1

  what?; something; anything

• 这样zhè yàngHSK 2

  this kind of; so; this way; like this; such

• 怎么zěn meHSK 1

  how?; what?; why?

• 那么nà meHSK 2

  like that; in that way; or so; so; so very much; about; in that case

• 这么zhè meHSK 2

  so much; this much; how much?; this way; like this

• 一样yī yàngHSK 1

  same; like; equal to; the same as; just like

• 为什么wèi shén meHSK 2

  why?; for what reason?

• 那样nà yàngHSK 2

  that kind; that sort

• 怎样zěn yàngHSK 2

  how; what kind

• 同样tóng yàngHSK 2

  same; equal; equivalent

• 样子yàng ziHSK 2

  appearance; manner; pattern; model

• 怎么办zěn me bànHSK 2

  what's to be done

• 没什么méi shén meHSK 1

  nothing; it doesn't matter; it's nothing; never mind

• 样yàngHSK 6

  manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type

• 多么duō meHSK 2

  how (wonderful etc); what (a great idea etc); however (difficult it may be etc); (in interrogative sentences) how (much etc); to what extent

• 什么样shén me yàngHSK 2

  what kind?; what sort?

• 要么yào meHSK 6

  or; either one or the other

• 干什么gàn shén meHSK 1

  what are you doing?; what's he up to?

• 模样mú yàngHSK 5

  look; style; appearance; approximation; about; also pr. [mó yàng]

• 样本yàng běnHSK 7

  sample; specimen

• 花样huā yàngHSK 7

  pattern; way of doing sth; trick; ruse; fancy-style (as in 花样滑冰 figure skating)

• 榜样bǎng yàngHSK 7

  example; model

• 样品yàng pǐnHSK 7

  sample; specimen

• 一模一样yī mú yī yàngHSK 6

  exactly the same (idiom); carbon copy; also pr. [yī mó yī yàng]