(rú hé) - how, in what way (formal) in Mandarin
rúhéTraditional: 如何
HSK 4
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Translation
how, in what way (formal)
Word origin
如何 (rú hé) combines 如 (rú), 'like' or 'as', with 何 (hé), the interrogative 'what' or 'how', built on the person radical 亻. The formal phrase means 'how' or 'in what way'.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 如 (rú, as) + 何 (hé, what/how)
Stroke order
如
何
Examples
？
How to achieve it?
？
How do I get to the station?
？
How to handle this problem?
？
How do you plan to resolve it?
？
How can we solve this problem?
如何 (rú hé) means how, in what way (formal). It is used as a pronoun in everyday Mandarin speech.
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