問

問 U+554F, 問 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-554F ← 啎 [U+554E] CJK Unified Ideographs 啐 → [U+5550]

㉄ U+3244, ㉄ CIRCLED IDEOGRAPH QUESTION ← ㉃ [U+3243] Enclosed CJK Letters and Months ㉅ → [U+3245]

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

• 𠍒, 𠼋, 𰊥, 𢴌, 𣼶, 𣙎, 𥏿, 𦄞, 𫍋, 𡫡, 𥐔, 𧢈, 𦟲, 蔄

• 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

trad.		問
simp.		问

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

Exoactive derivation of 聞 (OC *mɯn, “to hear”) with suffix *-s, literally "let (me) hear" (Schuessler, 2007). See there for more.

問

1. to ask

   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.

   你問我，我問邊個？ [Cantonese, trad.]
   你问我，我问边个？ [Cantonese, simp.]

   nei⁵ man⁶ ngo⁵, ngo⁵ man⁶ bin¹ go³? [Jyutping]

   You ask me, but who do I ask? → I don't know the answer to your question.

2. to inquire about; to ask about
3. to send one's regards; to send one's respects; to greet; to ask how someone is; to show concern to someone
4. to try; to interrogate; to subject to an inquest
5. to call to account; to hold to account; to take to task
6. to interfere; to intervene; to meddle
7. (colloquial) to; from
8. a surname: Wen

• (to ask):

• (to inquire about):

• (to send one's regards):

• (to try):

• (to call to account):

• (to interfere):

• “Entry #7044”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. question, inquiry

• 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)

Kanji in this term
問
もん Grade: 3
goon

From Middle Chinese 問 (MC mjunH).

• IPA^(key): [mõ̞ɴ]

問(もん) • (-mon) 

1. counter for questions, problems

Kanji in this term
問
とい Grade: 3
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 問 – see the following entry.

【問とい】 [noun] question, inquiry

(This term, 問, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

問 (eumhun 물을 문 (mureul mun))

1. hanja form^? of 문 (“ask; question”)

問: Hán Nôm readings: vấn, vắn, vắng, vẩn, vặn

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