怎么搞的 / 怎麼搞的

zěn​me​gǎo​de

what happened?

Used to express surprise or frustration about how something went wrong; translates as "what's wrong?", "what went wrong?", or "how did you mess it up?"

怎么 (literal) → 怎么/怎麼 · zěn​me · how 搞 (literal) → 搞 · gǎo · to cause 的 (bound) → 的 · de · [assertion]

Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

created sense May 20, 2026, 07:58 PM