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Mythic Mandarin

怎么样 (zěn me yàng): meaning and stroke order

怎么样 (zěn me yàng) means how?, how about?, how was it?, how are things?.

怎么样

Simplified
怎么样
Traditional
怎麼樣
Pinyin
zěn me yàng

Stroke order of 怎么样

怎

  • zěn how
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

么

  • Yāo surname Yao
  • yāo youngest; most junior
  • má exclamatory final particle
  • 3 strokes
  • Simplified form: 幺

Stroke by stroke

样

  • yàng manner; pattern
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 樣

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 怎么样

  1. zěn me yàng Traditional 怎麼樣
    • how?
    • how about?
    • how was it?
    • how are things?

Radicals of the characters

怎
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 9 strokes · 乍 on top, 心 below
么
Radical 丿 (Kangxi radical 4) · 3 strokes
样
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 10 strokes · 木 on the left, 羊 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).