(zěn me yàng) - how, what do you think, how about in Mandarin
zěnmeyàngTraditional: 怎麼樣
Translation
how, what do you think, how about
Word origin
怎么样 (zěnmeyàng) 'how about, what do you think' is 怎么 'how' plus 样 (yàng, 'manner, appearance'). 样 is a phono-semantic compound with the 木 (mù, 'wood') radical and 羊 (yáng, 'sheep') as phonetic.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 怎么 (how) + 样 (木 wood radical + 羊 phonetic, 'manner')
Stroke order
怎
么
样
Examples
？
How are you?
？
What do you think of this?
？
How is he doing?
？
How have you been lately?
？
How is this film?
怎么样 (zěn me yàng) means how, what do you think, how about. It is used as a pronoun in everyday Mandarin speech.
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