何如

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Chinese

 
carry; what; how
carry; what; how; why; which
 as (if); such as
trad. (何如) 何 如
simp. #(何如) 何 如
anagram 如何

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 何 如
Reading # 1/2 1/2
Initial (聲) 匣 (33) 日 (38)
Final (韻) 歌 (94) 魚 (22)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I III
Fanqie 胡歌切 人諸切
Baxter ha nyo
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦɑ/ /ȵɨʌ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦɑ/ /ȵiɔ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣɑ/ /ȵʑiɔ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦa/ /ȵɨə̆/
Li
Rong 		/ɣɑ/ /ȵiɔ/
Wang
Li 		/ɣɑ/ /ȵʑĭo/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ɣɑ/ /ȵʑi̯wo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		hé rú
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ho4 jyu4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 何 如
Reading # 1/1 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		hé rú
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ha › ‹ nyo ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁaj/ /*na/
English what as, like, if

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 何 如
Reading # 1/2 1/2
No. 7458 9623
Phonetic
component 		可 女
Rime
group 		歌 魚
Rime
subdivision 		1 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		何 如
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡaːl/ /*nja/

Adverb

何如

  1. (archaic or Northern Min) how; what; in what way

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 怎樣 (“how”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 如何, 何以, 若何
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 如何, 怎樣
Mandarin Beijing 怎麼樣兒, 怎樣兒
Taiwan 怎麼樣, 怎樣, 如何
Jinan 怎麼樣
Xi'an 咋樣兒
Wuhan 麼樣, 麼樣子, 哪樣, 哪樣子
Chengdu 咋個樣, 咋個樣子, 啷個樣, 啷個樣子
Guilin 啷子樣
Yangzhou 怎們樣, 哪一個樣, 哪一個樣子
Hefei 怎樣
Malaysia 怎麼樣, 怎樣, 如何
Singapore 怎麼樣, 怎樣, 如何
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) 點, 點樣
Zhongshan (Tanbei) 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) 點, 點樣
Zhongshan (Minzhong) 點, 點樣
Zhongshan (Banfu) 點, 點樣
Zhongshan (Tanzhou) 點, 點樣
Zhuhai (Qianshan) 點樣
Zhuhai (Doumen, Shangheng 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 Shaxi (Longdu) 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

Conjunction

何如

  1. (archaic) it would be better to; might as well; let's

Synonyms

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