怎么

how? / what? / why?

variant of 怎麼|怎么[zen3 me5]

how

surname Yao

youngest / most junior / tiny / one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military) / one or ace on dice or dominoes / variant of 吆[yao1], to shout

exclamatory final particle

interrogative final particle

suffix, used to form interrogative 什麼|什么[shen2 me5], what?, indefinite 這麼|这么[zhe4 me5] thus, etc

variant of 麼|么[me5]

how? / how about? / how was it? / how are things?

what's to be done

what? / how? / how about? / whatever / also pr. [zen3 me5 zhe5]

not very / not particularly

how can this be? / what's to be done? / what an awful mess!

How did it happen? / What's wrong? / What went wrong? / What's up?

Why is that? / How come?

variant of 怎麼了|怎么了[zen3 me5 le5]

not up to much / very indifferent / nothing great about it / nothing good to be said about it

no matter how ...

What's up? / What's going on? / What happened?

what's the matter? / what's going on? / how could that be? / how did that come about? / what's it all about?