怎 — 9 strokes / Radical「心」
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- On
- シン・ソしん・そ · shin · so
- Kun
- いかで・なんぞikade · nanzo
- Meaning
- how; why
Stroke order
Origin
Heart 心 with 乍 as phonetic: used as the particle "how" or "why".
Compounds
- 怎麼そも
how; what sort of
- 如何いかん
how; what about
Example
怎麼して斯くも遅れたるか。
How is it that you are so late?
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)