尋問

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See also: 寻问

Chinese[edit]

to search; to look for; to seek to ask
trad. (尋問)
simp. (寻问)

Pronunciation[edit]


Verb[edit]

尋問

  1. (literary) to ask about; to make enquiries

Japanese[edit]

Kanji in this term
じん
Grade: S
もん
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

(じん)(もん) (jinmon

  1. questioning, interrogation
    • 1907, 夏目漱石, 文芸の哲学的基礎:
      尋問(じんもん)(こた)えるのが不利益(ふりえき)だと(さと)って、いよいよ(おし)真似(まね)をする。
      Jinmon ni kotaeru no ga furieki da to satotte, iyoiyo oshi no mane o suru.
      Realizing that responding to interrogation would do him no good, he played deaf and dumb.
  2. cross examination

Verb[edit]

(じん)(もん)する (jinmon surusuru (stem (じん)(もん) (jinmon shi), past (じん)(もん)した (jinmon shita))

  1. to question, to interrogate
  2. to cross examine

Conjugation[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN