怎么 — stroke order
Learn how to write 怎么 (zěnme), which means “how?”. It is written with 2 characters and 12 strokes in total. In traditional Chinese it is written 怎麼. Each character below is animated in the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap any character to replay it, or use “Play all strokes” to watch the whole word written in order.
Character by character
| Character | Pinyin | 注音 | Meaning | Strokes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 怎 | zěn | ㄗㄣˇ | what? why? how? | 9 |
| 么 | me | ㄇㄜ˙ | interrogative particle | 3 |