| zěn | how |
| 怎 | how |
| 怎么 | how? what? why? |
| 怎么了 | What's up? What's going on? What happened? |
| 怎么办 | what's to be done |
| 怎么回事 | what's the matter? what's going on? how could that be? |
| 怎么得了 | where will it all end |
| 怎么搞的 | How did it happen? What's wrong? What went wrong? |
| 怎么样 | how? how about? how was it? |
| 怎么着 | (pron) what (idiom) "whatever", used to replace some verbs in a sentence to form a more general sentence also pron. zen3 me5 zhe5 |
| 怎奈 | but; however |
| 怎样 | how why |
| 怎生 | how why |
| 怎的 | what for why how |
| 怎能 | how can? |