問 — question, ask, inquire

もん問 question

もん

U+554F Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #64 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1630 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

question
ask
inquire

Readings

On'yomi: もん mon
Kun'yomi: とん ton と to

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もん mon On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

問(もん) mon question 問(もん) 題(だい) mondai problem 学(がく) 問(もん) gakumon learning 問(もん) 答(どう) mondou questions and answers 一(いち) 問(もん) ichimon one question 南(なん) 北(ぼく) 問(もん) 題(だい) nanbokumondai North-South problem 問(もん) 題(だい) ない mondainai no problem 問(もん) 題(だい) 点(てん) mondaiten the problem (at issue)

とん ton Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

問(とん) 屋(や) tonya wholesale store

と to Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

問(と) う tou to ask 問(と) い合(あ) わせ toiawase inquiry 問(と) い toi question 問(と) い合(あ) わせる toiawaseru to inquire 問(と) いかける toikakeru to ask

とい toi

問(とい) 合(あわ) せ toiawase inquiry

Words by frequency and grade

41 words

Each dot is a word containing 問: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 21 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Appears in idioms

一問一答四字熟語

one question, one answer

自問自答四字熟語

self question, self answer

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

もん門 gate #169

くち口 mouth #30

Compound ideograph (会意). 口 (mouth) inside 門 (gate). To speak at the gate — a question is a mouth directed at a barrier.

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#30 口 mouth