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HSK
how? / what? / why?
HSK 1
not up to much / very indifferent / nothing great about it / nothing good to be said about it
HSK 6
in any case; no matter what
how / what kind
HSK 2
how? / how about? / how was it? / how are things?
HSK 2
not very / not particularly
HSK 6
Why is that?; How come?
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *怎* | 怎* | *怎
how
what's to be done
HSK 2
what for / why / how
how can?
What's up? / What's going on? / What happened?
no matter how ...
what's the matter? / what's going on? / how could that be? / how did that come about? / what's it all about?
how can this be? / what's to be done? / what an awful mess!
how / why
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *咋* | 咋* | *咋
dialectal equivalent of 怎麼|怎么 / Taiwan pr. [ze2]
How did it happen? / What's wrong? / What went wrong? / What's up?
what? / how? / how about? / whatever / also pr. [zen3 me5 zhe5]
(last line of the poem 聲聲慢|声声慢 by Song poet Li Qingzhao 李清照) / how can it be expressed in one word, "sorrow"? / how can words express such sadness?
variant of 怎麼|怎么
HSK 1
How do you mean? / How could that be the case? / How so?
(often used in early vernacular) but alas; however
Internet slang for 怎麼|怎么


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