多么 duōme▶ tal

Stroke order

多么 is written in 9 strokes across 2 characters.

• 多 — 6 strokes
• 么 — 3 strokes

Senses

1. how (wonderful etc)
2. what (a great idea etc)
3. however (difficult it may be etc)
4. (in interrogative sentences) how (much etc)
5. to what extent

Example sentences

• 多么漂亮的花！Duōme piàoliang de huā!What beautiful flowers!
• 你多么聪明啊！Nǐ duōme cōngming a!How clever you are!

Related words

• 许多muchos
• 为什么por qué
• 差不多Casi
• 多muchos, mucho
• 什么qué, por qué
• 多亏gracias a

多么 is pronounced duōme and means “tal”. You will meet it in HSK 3, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 多么 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.