怎么办
zěn me bàn 3–5–4
what's to be done
- Characters
- 3
- 怎 · 么 · 办
- Syllables
- 3
- zěn me bàn
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 1,422
Part of speech: r,v
Character by character
- 怎zěn9 strokesHSK 1what? why? how?
- 么me3 strokesHSK 1 traditional 幺interrogative particle; small
- 办bàn4 strokesHSK 2 traditional 辦manage, do, handle; deal with
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 怎么办. 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
- 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
- 为什么wèi shén meHSK 2
why?; for what reason?
- 办法bàn fǎHSK 2
means; method; way (of doing sth)
- 办bànHSK 2
to do; to manage; to handle; to go about; to run; to set up; to deal with
- 怎样zěn yàngHSK 2
how; what kind
- 办公室bàn gōng shìHSK 2
office; business premises; bureau
- 怎么样zěn me yàngHSK 2
how?; how about?; how was it?; how are things?
- 没什么méi shén meHSK 1
nothing; it doesn't matter; it's nothing; never mind
- 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
- 举办jǔ bànHSK 3
to conduct; to hold
- 干什么gàn shén meHSK 1
what are you doing?; what's he up to?
- 办事bàn shìHSK 4
to handle (affairs); to work
- 办公bàn gōngHSK 6
to handle official business; to work (esp. in an office)
- 办理bàn lǐHSK 3
to handle; to transact; to conduct
- 民办mín bànHSK 7
run by the local people; privately operated
- 不怎么bù zěn meHSK 6
not very; not particularly
- 承办chéng bànHSK 5
to undertake; to accept a contract
- 创办chuàng bànHSK 6
to establish; to found; to launch
- 主办zhǔ bànHSK 5
to organize; to host (a conference or sports event)