怎麼辦

See also: 怎么办

Chinese

		how; how come; why	to do; to manage; to handle to do; to manage; to handle; to go about; to run; to set up; to deal with
trad. (怎麼辦/怎麽辦)		怎麼/怎麽	辦
simp. (怎么办)		怎么	办

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zěnmebàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄣˇ ˙ㄇㄜ ㄅㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zam² mo¹ baan⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zěnmebàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄣˇ ˙ㄇㄜ ㄅㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zěnme̊bàn
    • Wade–Giles: tsên³-mê⁵-pan⁴
    • Yale: dzěn-me-bàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzeen.mebann
    • Palladius: цзэньмэбань (czɛnʹmɛbanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sən²¹⁴ mə⁴ pän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zam² mo¹ baan⁶
    • Yale: jám mō baahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzam² mo¹ baan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: zem² mo¹ ban⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐm³⁵ mɔː⁵⁵ paːn²²/

Phrase

怎麼辦

1. (interrogative, colloquial) What to do?; What should be done?

   要是考試不及格的話，怎麼辦？ [MSC, trad.]
   要是考试不及格的话，怎么办？ [MSC, simp.]

   Yàoshi kǎoshì bù jígé dehuà, zěnmebàn? [Pinyin]

   What do I do if I don't pass my exams?

   當你一無所有的時候，你怎麼辦？ [MSC, trad.]
   当你一无所有的时候，你怎么办？ [MSC, simp.]

   Dāng nǐ yīwúsuǒyǒu de shíhou, nǐ zěnmebàn? [Pinyin]

   What do you do when you have nothing at all?

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 怎麼辦 (“What to do?”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		奈何
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		怎麼辦
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	怎麼辦
	Harbin	咋辦, 咋整
	Singapore	怎麼辦
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	怎麼辦
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	怎個弄
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	咋辦
	Xi'an	咋辦
	Xuzhou	咋辦, 怎麼辦
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	咋辦, 咋圪, 咋鬧
	Ürümqi	咋麼辦, 咋辦
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	咋個辦, 啷個辦
	Guiyang	咋個辦
	Liuzhou	𱓶子搞
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	怎麼辦
Cantonese	Guangzhou	點算
	Hong Kong	點算, 點搞, 點辦
	Singapore (Guangfu)	點算
Gan	Nanchang	啷辦
	Pingxiang	羅弟辦
Hakka	Meixian	仰仔辦, 仰結煞, 仰般好
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	仰結煞
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	仰結煞
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	仰結煞
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	仰結煞
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	仰結煞
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; Raoping)	仰結煞
Huizhou	Jixi	采翹搞, 采的搞
Jin	Taiyuan	咋底辦
	Xinzhou	抓辦
Northern Min	Jian'ou	共弄弄
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	怎做
Southern Min	Singapore (Hokkien)	欲按怎
	Chaozhou	做呢物
	Shantou	做呢物, 做呢做
	Jieyang	做呢物
	Singapore (Teochew)	做呢物
	Leizhou	怎怎做
	Haikou	咋作
Wu	Shanghai	哪能辦
	Suzhou	捺亨弄法
	Danyang	暖格辦, 暖格弄
	Hangzhou	接格辦, 接格套辦
	Ningbo	咋弄, 咋弄弄
	Wenzhou	訾那妝
	Jinhua	哪生弄弄, 哪生好, 哪亨好, 喪好
Xiang	Changsha	何什搞
	Loudi	嗎介搞