怎 — kanji meaning “why”
怎
why, how
- Meanings
- why, how
- On'yomi
- シン (shin)、ソ (so)
- Kun'yomi
- いかで、なんぞ
- Strokes
- 9
- Classical radical
- 61
- Chinese reading
- zěn, zě — Chinese character page
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