怎么样
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In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 怎麼樣
How is it, what is it like: a question that asks for an opinion or about a state. It usually ends the question: 你的工作怎么样? 'how is your job going?'. After a suggestion it means 'how about it?': 我们明天去，怎么样? 'shall we go tomorrow?'. 么 has a neutral tone.
Thế nào, ra sao: từ để hỏi ý kiến hoặc hỏi tình hình. Thường đứng cuối câu hỏi: 你的工作怎么样? (công việc của bạn thế nào?). Đặt sau một lời đề nghị thì nghĩa là “được không?”: 我们明天去，怎么样? (mai mình đi nhé, được không?). Chữ 么 đọc thanh nhẹ.
PronounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “怎么样” mean?
How is it, what is it like: a question that asks for an opinion or about a state. It usually ends the question: 你的工作怎么样? 'how is your job going?'. After a suggestion it means 'how about it?': 我们明天去，怎么样? 'shall we go tomorrow?'. 么 has a neutral tone.
Is “怎么样” formal or informal?
怎么样 is generally neutral.