問

See also: 问

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order (alternative)

Han character

問 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 日弓口 (ANR), four-corner 7760₇, composition ⿵門口)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 195, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3814
• Dae Jaweon: page 416, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4284, character 3
• Unihan data for U+554F

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Chinese

trad.		問
simp.		问

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (門) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
蔄	*roːs, *mruːns
闅	*min, *mrɯn, *mɯn
閩	*mrɯn, *mɯn
蕄	*mɯːŋ, *mrɯːŋ
門	*mɯːn
捫	*mɯːn
悶	*mɯːns
聞	*mɯn, *mɯns
閿	*mɯn
問	*mɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *mɯns) : phonetic 門 (OC *mɯːn) + semantic 口.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 問

1. to ask; to enquire

   • 我能問個問題嗎？ [MSC, trad.]
     我能问个问题吗？ [MSC, simp.]

     Wǒ néng wèn ge wèntí ma? [Pinyin]

     May I ask a question?

   • 問他到哪兒去。／问他到哪儿去。  ―  Wèn tā dào nǎr qù.  ―  Ask him where to go.
2. to investigate; to enquire into
3. to blame; to criticise
4. to intervene; to interfere
5. to interrogate; to sentence
6. to visit; to call on somebody
7. question

Compounds

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Kanji

問

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: もん (mon, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ぶん (bun)
• Kun: とい (toi, 問い, Jōyō)^{←とひ (tofi, 問ひ, historical)}、とう (tou, 問う, Jōyō)^{←とふ (tofu, 問ふ, historical)}、とん (ton, 問, Jōyō ^†)
• Nanori: はる (haru)

Compounds

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Related terms

• 問題(もんだい) (mondai)
• 問答(もんどう) (mondō)
• 問(と)う (tou)
• 不問(ふもん) (fumon)
• 学問(がくもん) (gakumon)

• 質問(しつもん) (shitsumon)
• 疑問(ぎもん) (gimon)
• 一問(いちもん) (ichimon)
• 尋問(じんもん) (jinmon)
• 喚問(かんもん) (kanmon)

• 検問(けんもん) (kenmon)
• 詰問(きつもん) (kitsumon)
• 拷問(ごうもん) (gōmon)

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Counter

問(もん) or 問(counter) • (mon or counter) [[Category:Japanese
|もん]]

1. questions, problems

Noun

問(とい) • (toi) 

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Alternative form of 問い

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Hanja

問 • (mun) (hangeul 문, McCune–Reischauer mun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 問 (vấn, vắn, vắng, vẩn, vặn)

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