怎 — 9 strokes ／ Radical「心」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 9 strokes ／ Radical「心」
- 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)