もん

Japanese

Changed from 物(もの) (mono); became common in the Kantō dialects from the late Edo period.

もん • (mon)

物: thing (Alternative form of もの mono)
人(じん)生(せい)はそんなもんだ。
Jinsei wa sonna mon da.
Such is life.
(literally, “Life is that sort of thing.”)

もん • (mon)

For pronunciation and definitions of もん – see the following entries.

【門】2

[noun] a gate

[noun] Short for 門限 (mongen): a curfew

[counter] counter for cannons or large guns

【悶】H	[noun] agony

【紋】S	[noun] Synonym of 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”)

【文】1

[noun] the mon, an old currency

[noun] a unit of length for measuring the size of one's foot (from the way that the mon coins would be lined up and used as a kind of inch marker)

[noun] writing, something written

[noun] (also spelled 紋) a design, a pattern

[noun] (also spelled 紋) a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”)

(This term, もん (mon), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as もん, see Category:Japanese kanji read as もん.)