怎 · zěn
what? why? how?
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
what? why? how?
- Mandarin
- zěn
- Cantonese
- zam2
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 怎 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
Go deeperJisho ↗Wiktionary ↗
Korean 한국어
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Go deeperHán Việt (Thi Viện) ↗Wiktionary ↗
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+600E
- Radical
- 心 · 61
- Strokes
- 9 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
9 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 怎
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 乍 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 乍聲
Line 1590 · ⿱乍心 · 乍聲
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
Sentence context · 1 matches
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Source, contributors & licenses
Mandarin: Tatoeba #393408 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · Text editors: GlossaMatik · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #393407 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: shekitten
Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- zěn
- kCantonese
- zam2
- kDefinition
- what? why? how?
- kTotalStrokes
- 9
- kRSUnicode
- 61.5
- kGradeLevel
- 2
- kTGH
- 2013:1543
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- zěn 42280.100
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- zěn 1445.080
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- zěn 461.010
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- zěn(2090)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- zěn粵zam2