怎樣

Chinese

		how	manner; pattern; way manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape
trad. (怎樣)		怎	樣
simp. (怎样)		怎	样

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zěnyàng

(Zhuyin): ㄗㄣˇ ㄧㄤˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zam² joeng⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): cháiⁿ-iūⁿ / chàiⁿ-iūⁿ / chóaⁿ-iōⁿ / chóaⁿ-iūⁿ / cháⁿ-iūⁿ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zěnyàng
  - Zhuyin: ㄗㄣˇ ㄧㄤˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: zěnyàng
  - Wade–Giles: tsên³-yang⁴
  - Yale: dzěn-yàng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzeenyanq
  - Palladius: цзэньян (czɛnʹjan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sən²¹⁴⁻²¹ jɑŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: zam² joeng⁶
  - Yale: jám yeuhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzam² joeng⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: zem² yêng⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐm³⁵ jœːŋ²²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cháiⁿ-iūⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: tsáinn-iūnn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zvay'viu
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sãi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ iũ²²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Kinmen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chàiⁿ-iūⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: tsàinn-iūnn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zvae'viu
  - IPA (Kinmen): /t͡sãi¹²⁻⁵³ iũ²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sãi⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ iũ⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chóaⁿ-iōⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: tsuánn-iōnn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zvoaf'vioi
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡suã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ iɔ̃²²/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chóaⁿ-iūⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: tsuánn-iūnn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zvoaf'viu
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡suã⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ iũ³³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡suã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ iũ³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cháⁿ-iūⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: tsánn-iūnn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zvaf'viu
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ iũ²²/

Adverb

怎樣

how; what
這句話應該怎樣理解呢？ [MSC, trad.]
这句话应该怎样理解呢？ [MSC, simp.]
Zhè jù huà yīnggāi zěnyàng lǐjiě ne? [Pinyin]
How should we understand this sentence?

芬蘭是怎樣的一個國家？ [MSC, trad.]
芬兰是怎样的一个国家？ [MSC, simp.]
Fēnlán shì zěnyàng de yí ge guójiā? [Pinyin]
What sort of country is Finland?

這領衫欲賣千二，你看怎樣？ [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
这领衫欲卖千二，你看怎样？ [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]
Chit niá saⁿ beh bē chheng jī, lí khòaⁿ chóaⁿ-iūⁿ? [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
This dress costs 1200, what do you think?
however; in whatever way

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 怎樣 (“how”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		如何, 何以, 若何
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		如何, 怎樣
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	怎麼樣兒, 怎樣兒
	Taiwan	怎麼樣, 怎樣, 如何
	Malaysia	怎麼樣, 怎樣, 如何
	Singapore	怎麼樣, 怎樣, 如何
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	怎麼樣
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	咋樣兒
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	咋個樣, 咋個樣子, 啷個樣, 啷個樣子
	Wuhan	麼樣, 麼樣子, 哪樣, 哪樣子
	Guilin	啷子樣
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	怎們樣, 哪一個樣, 哪一個樣子
Jianghuai Mandarin	Hefei	怎樣
Cantonese	Guangzhou	點樣, 點
	Hong Kong	點樣, 點
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin; Weitou)	點樣
	Macau	點樣, 點
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	點
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	點樣, 點樣做
	Foshan	點
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	點
	Foshan (Shunde)	點, 點樣
	Foshan (Sanshui)	點
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	點
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	點子
	Zhongshan (Huancheng)	點子
	Zhongshan (Nanlang)	點子
	Zhongshan (Xiaolan)	點
	Zhongshan (Dongsheng, Xiaolan)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Tanbei, Xiaolan)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Henglan)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Dongfeng)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Nantou)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Fusha)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Shalang)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Gangkou)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Huangpu)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Langwang, Minzhong)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Minzhong)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Banfu)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Tanzhou)	點, 點樣
	Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou)	點樣
	Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka)	點
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	點
	Taishan	幾何
	Singapore (Guangfu)	點樣, 點
Gan	Nanchang	啷樣, 啷
Hakka	Meixian	仰般, 仰仔
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	仰般, 仰仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	仰仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	仰般
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	仰脣, 仰
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	仰般, 仰般形
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	仰子
Jin	Taiyuan	咋, 咋底
Northern Min	Jian'ou	何如, 何如事
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	將樣, 蔣樣, 蔣其
Southern Min	Xiamen	按怎, 怎樣, 啥款
	Quanzhou	障仔, 怎樣, 按怎, 啥款
	Zhangzhou	按怎, 怎樣, 啥款
	Tainan	按怎, 怎仔樣, 怎樣仔, 啥款
	Penang (Hokkien)	按怎
	Singapore (Hokkien)	按怎
	Manila (Hokkien)	障仔, 怎樣
	Chaozhou	在生樣, 乜生樣, 做呢
	Shantou	在生
	Jieyang	在生, 在生樣
	Haifeng	做呢, 做呢樣
	Singapore (Teochew)	做呢, 在生
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	哪, 哪樣
Wu	Shanghai	哪能, 哪能介, 哪能樣子
	Suzhou	捺亨
	Wenzhou	訾那, 訾那能
Xiang	Changsha	何是, 何裡
Xiang	Shuangfeng	麼家

Derived terms

不管怎樣／不管怎样 (bùguǎnzěnyàng)