在生樣

Chinese

		(located) at; in; exist (located) at; in; exist; (before verbs) immediately involved in; right in the middle of doing	to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw	manner; pattern; way manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape
trad. (在生樣)		在	生	樣
simp. (在生样)		在	生	样
alternative forms		怎生樣／怎生样

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): zai⁶ sên¹ iên⁷ / zai⁶ sên¹ ion⁷

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• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zai⁶ sên¹ iên⁷ / zai⁶ sên¹ ion⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsăi seⁿ iēⁿ / tsăi seⁿ iōⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sai³⁵⁻¹¹ sẽ³³⁻²³ ĩẽ¹¹/, /t͡sai³⁵⁻¹¹ sẽ³³⁻²³ ĩõ¹¹/

Note:

• zai6 sên1 iên7 - Chaozhou;
• zai6 sên1 ion7 - Jieyang.

Adverb

在生樣

1. (Teochew) how

Synonyms

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		如何, 何以, 若何
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		如何, 怎樣
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	怎麼樣兒, 怎樣兒
	Taiwan	怎麼樣, 怎樣, 如何
	Malaysia	怎麼樣, 怎樣, 如何
	Singapore	怎麼樣, 怎樣, 如何
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	怎麼樣
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	咋樣兒
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	咋個樣, 咋個樣子, 啷個樣, 啷個樣子
	Wuhan	麼樣, 麼樣子, 哪樣, 哪樣子
	Guilin	啷子樣
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	怎們樣, 哪一個樣, 哪一個樣子
	Hefei	怎樣
Cantonese	Guangzhou	點樣, 點
	Hong Kong	點樣, 點
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)	點樣
	Macau	點樣, 點
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	點
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	點樣, 點樣做
	Foshan	點
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	點
	Foshan (Shunde)	點, 點樣
	Foshan (Sanshui)	點
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	點
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	點子
	Zhongshan (Huancheng)	點子
	Zhongshan (Nanlang)	點子
	Zhongshan (Xiaolan)	點
	Zhongshan (Dongsheng, Xiaolan)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Tanbei, Xiaolan)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Henglan)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Dongfeng)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Nantou)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Fusha)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Shalang)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Gangkou)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Huangpu)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Langwang, Minzhong)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Minzhong)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Banfu)	點, 點樣
	Zhongshan (Tanzhou)	點, 點樣
	Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou)	點樣
	Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka)	點
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	點
	Taishan	幾何
	Singapore (Guangfu)	點樣, 點
Gan	Nanchang	啷樣, 啷
Hakka	Meixian	仰般, 仰仔
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	仰般, 仰仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	仰仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	仰般
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	仰脣, 仰
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	仰般, 仰般形
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	仰子
Jin	Taiyuan	咋, 咋底
Northern Min	Jian'ou	何如, 何如事
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	將樣, 蔣樣, 蔣其
Southern Min	Xiamen	按怎, 怎樣, 啥款
	Quanzhou	障仔, 怎樣, 按怎, 啥款
	Zhangzhou	按怎, 怎樣, 啥款
	Tainan	按怎, 怎仔樣, 怎樣仔, 啥款
	Penang (Hokkien)	按怎
	Singapore (Hokkien)	按怎
	Manila (Hokkien)	障仔, 怎樣
	Chaozhou	在生樣, 乜生樣, 做呢
	Shantou	在生
	Jieyang	在生, 在生樣
	Haifeng	做呢, 做呢樣
	Singapore (Teochew)	做呢, 在生
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	哪, 哪樣
Wu	Shanghai	哪能, 哪能介, 哪能樣子
	Suzhou	捺亨
	Wenzhou	訾那, 訾那能
Xiang	Changsha	何是, 何裡
	Shuangfeng	麼家

Dialectal synonyms of 怎樣 (“how”) [map]