問

See also: 问

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order (alternative)

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

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trad.		問
simp.		问

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wèn (wen⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁶
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): mun
• Min Nan (POJ): mn̄g / būn
• Wu (WT Romanisation): men (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: wèn
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˋ
    • Wade-Giles: wên⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wenn
    • IPA ^(key): /u̯ən⁵¹/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: man⁶
    • Yale: mahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: man⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /mɐn²²/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mun
    • IPA (Siyen, including Miaoli): /mun⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mn̄g / būn
    • Tâi-lô: mn̄g / būn
    • IPA (Taipei): /mŋ̍³³/, /bun³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /mŋ̍²²/, /bun²²/
  • Note: būn is literary.
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: men (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /məɲ²³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (問, reconstructed)
Character (問), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 文 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 亡運切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/mɨunH/	/mi̯uənH/	/miuənH/	/miunH/	/munH/	/mĭuənH/	/miuənH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (問, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
問								wèn								‹ mjunH ›								/*C.mu[n]-s/								ask
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
問					8967					門					文					1					問					/*mɯns/

Verb

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。 [MSC, trad.]

     问他到哪儿去。 [MSC, simp.]

     Wèn tā dào nǎr qù. [Pinyin]

     Ask him where to go.

Compounds

Related terms

請問／请问 please, excuse me 問題／问题 question, problem

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Japanese

Kanji

問

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: もん (mon)
• Kan’on: ぶん (bun)
• Kun: とう (tou), とん (ton)

Compounds

Related terms

問題 (もんだい, mondai) 問答 (もんどう, mondō) 問う (とう, tou) 不問 (ふもん, humon) 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)

Counter

問 (hiragana もん, romaji -mon)

1. questions, problems

Noun

問 (hiragana とい, romaji toi)

1. alternative form of 問い

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Korean

Hanja

問 (mun) (hangeul 문, McCune-Reischauer mun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

問 (vấn, vắn, vắng, vẩn, vặn)

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