What does it mean in Chinese?

What does 怎么 mean?

怎么 zěnme

how; why; how come

It can also mean

  • what's wrong; what happened (as in 怎么了)
  • (used with a negative) not very (as in 不怎么)

Its characters

  1. 怎 zěn how
  2. 么 me suffix (as in 什么, 怎么, 这么, 多么)

In a sentence

你怎么了?看起来不太高兴。 What's wrong? You don't look very happy.

你见到医生,医生会问你:“你怎么了?

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