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怎 — how

Pinyin
zěn
Strokes
9
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 怎: 9 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

怎 — 9 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 怎 in the HSK syllabus: 4

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 怎么zěnmehow?; what?; why?HSK 1
  2. 怎么样zěnmeyànghow?; how about?; how was it?; how are things?HSK 1
  3. 怎么办zěnme bànwhat's to be doneHSK 3
  4. 怎样zěnyànghow; what kindHSK 3

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.