問

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

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

Chinese
trad. 問
simp. 问

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (門) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蔄 *roːs, *mruːns
闅 *min, *mrɯn, *mɯn
閩 *mrɯn, *mɯn
蕄 *mɯːŋ, *mrɯːŋ
門 *mɯːn
捫 *mɯːn
悶 *mɯːns
聞 *mɯn, *mɯns
閿 *mɯn
問 *mɯns

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

Pronunciation
Note:
  • muóng - vernacular;
  • ông - literary.
Note:
  • mn̄g/mūi/mňg - vernacular;
  • būn - literary.
Rime
Character 問
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 文 (59)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 亡運切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mɨunH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /miunH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /miuənH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /munH/
Li
Rong		 /miuənH/
Wang
Li		 /mĭuənH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mi̯uənH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wèn
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 問
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wèn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mjunH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.mu[n]-s/
English 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 問
Reading # 1/1
No. 8967
Phonetic
component		 門
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 問
Old
Chinese		 /*mɯns/

Definitions

問

  1. to ask; to enquire
  2. to investigate; to enquire into
  3. to blame; to criticise
  4. to intervene; to interfere
  5. to interrogate; to sentence
  6. to visit; to call on somebody
  7. question

Compounds
Derived terms from 問

Further reading

Japanese

Kanji
問

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds
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Counter

問 (hiragana もん, rōmaji -mon)

  1. questions, problems

Noun

問 (hiragana とい, rōmaji toi)

  1. Alternative form of 問い

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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