Kanji: 問

    • Meaning : question,ask,problem
    • ON reading : モン
    • KUN reading : と.う,と.い,とん
    • Nanori : はる
    • Stroke count : 11
    • Frequency of use ranking : 64
    • Jouyou grade level : 3
    • JLPT : 3
    • Radical :

Words containing that kanji:


  • - しもんじこう - terms of reference
  • うはさない - そうはとんやがおろさない - Things seldom go as one wishes
  • うはわぬは - とうはいっときのはじとわぬはまつだいのはじ - Better to ask and be embarrassed than not ask and never to know
  • - さらもん - further questions
  • る - ぎもんがのこる - There are still some doubtful points
  • - りょうゆうけんもんだい - territorial dispute
  • - といあわせたんまつ - inquiry station
  • - もんだいていぎ - problem definition/problem description
  • - といあわせかんすう - inquiry function
  • - もんだいのかいけつ - problem solution
  • - といあわせげんご - query language
  • - もんだいむきげんご - problem-oriented language
  • - ゆそうもんだい - transportation problem
  • - てきようぎょうむもんだい - application problem
  • - といあわせきのう - inquiry function
  • - もんだいきじゅつ - problem definition/problem description
  • - あいせいもんだい - compatibility issue
  • 西2000 - せいれき2000ねんもんだい - Year 2000 problem
  • セールスマンの - じゅんかいセールスマンのもんだい - travelling salesman problem/TSP
  • - こくさいむせんつうしんしもんいいんかい - Comite Consultatif International des Radiocommunications/CCIR
  • - けんさもんだい - check problem
  • - ぎじゅつてきもんだい - technical problem, issue
  • - ぎもんのかいけつ - problem solution
  • わせ - けいぞくといあわせおうとうしょり - CTS/Continuous Temporary Storage
  • - いもん - condolences/sympathy call
  • - いちもんいっとう - answering question by question
  • - えんしゅうもんだい - practice problem/practise problem
  • | - おろしどんや - wholesaler
  • - おしもんどう - dispute/heated questioning and answering
  • - おうようもんだい - application problem/exercises
  • - かもん - enquiry/inquiry/consultation
  • - がいこうもんだい - diplomatic issue
  • - がくもん - scholarship/study/learning
  • - かんもん - summons
  • - がくもんてき - scholarly
  • オンライン - オンラインもんだいかいけつ - online problem solving
  • - ぎもんだいめいし - interrogative pronoun
  • - ぎもんふ - question mark
  • - きつもん - cross-examination
  • - ぎもんし - interrogative word
  • - ぎもん - question/problem/doubt/guess
  • - ぎもんぶん - interrogative sentence
  • - きゅうもん - inquiry/enquiry
  • - きょうかいちもんだい - boundary value problem
  • - ぐんじこもん - military adviser/military advisor
  • - ぐもん - foolish question
  • わせ - おといあわせ - enquiry/inquiry
  • - けんもん - inspection/examination
  • - けんもんじょ | けんもんしょ - check station/checkpoint
  • - けんこうもんだい - health problem/health issue
  • - こうかいもんどう - catechism
  • - よびじんもん - voir dire (hearing to determine the admissibility of evidence, or the competency of a witness or juror)
  • - こもん - adviser/advisor/consultant
  • - もんだいしゅう - question collection/problem collection/workbook
  • - こうしきほうもん - official visit
  • なし - がくもんにおうどうなし - there are no shortcuts in learning
  • - ふかぎもんぶん - tag-question (e.g. questions like 'He is, isn't he?')
  • - ごうもんぐ - instrument(s) of torture
  • - さもん - inquiry/enquiry/hearing
  • - ごうもん - torture/the rack/third degree
  • - たけしまもんだい - Takeshima problem
  • - さいじんもん - re-examination
  • - ざいせいもんだい - economic problem/financial problem
  • - しもん - interview/examination/question
  • - しもん - question/enquiry/inquiry
  • くある | よくある | くあるご | よくあるご - よくあるごしつもん - frequently asked questions/FAQ
  • - しもんきかん - consultative body/advisory committee/advisory organ
  • - しつもんようし - questionnaire
  • | - もんしんひょう - medical questionnaire/medical interview sheet/medical history form
  • - しつもんしゃ - interrogator
  • - しつもん - question/inquiry/enquiry
  • - しょもんだい - many problems/various problems
  • - しょうにんかんもん - summoning witness
  • - しんもん - interrogation/hearing/trial
  • - じんけんもんだい - human rights issue
  • - じんもん - cross-examination/interrogation/questioning
  • ける - もんだいをさける - to avoid a problem
  • - もんどうほう - dialectic/dialectics
  • にかかわる - せいしにかかわるもんだい - a matter of life and death
  • われる - せきにんをとわれる - to be answerable (for)/to take the blame
  • - せんけつもんだい - question to be settled first
  • - せつもん - posing a question | question
  • - ぜんもんどう - Zen dialogue/Zen questions and answers
  • - ちょうもん - condolence call
  • - ちんもん - irrelevant question
  • - ちょくもん - imperial question
  • ノー - ノーもんだい - no problem
  • - なんもん - perplexity/difficult question/difficult problem
  • - ぎもんてん - point of uncertainty/unclarified issue/doubt
  • - はんもん - cross-examination/retort/asking in return
  • - もんせきけつぎあん - censure motion (in the upper house)
  • よくある - よくあるしつもん - frequently asked questions/FAQ
  • - はんたいじんもん - cross-examination
  • 2000 - にせんねんもんだいたいおう - Y2K compliant
  • - ちきゅうてきもんだい - global problem/global issue
  • - もんだいぐん - group of problems/set of issues
  • - もんだいかいけつのうりょく - problem-solving ability
  • - らちもんだい - abduction issue (esp. of those Japanese abducted by North Korea)
  • そうはさない | そうはがおろさない - そうはとんやがおろさない - things don't work that well in the real world/that is expecting too much
  • す - ふもんにふす - to ignore/to disregard/to overlook/to connive at
  • - ふもん - ignorance
  • - ぶもん - samurai's lineage
  • - べつもんだい - different thing/another question/different case
  • - かこもんだいしゅう - past (exam) question collection
  • - かこもん - past (exam) question collection
  • - ほうもん - call/visit
  • - じびきがくもん - merely knowing the meanings of a large number of individual words/superficial learning
  • - そうごほうもん - mutual visitation/reciprocal visits
  • - ごうもんとうきんしじょうやく - Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
  • い | - とい - question/query
  • す | す | いただす - といただす - to enquire of someone about something (inquire)/to question
  • げる - もんだいをとりあげる - to take up a problem
  • - もんどう - questions and answers/dialogue
  • - みかいけつもんだい - unresolved problem
  • をする - しつもんをする - to ask a question/to ask questions
  • - きょうかしょもんだい - controversy over school textbooks (i.e. history texts avoiding reference to Japanese military, etc. acts)
  • - まやくもんだいたんとうちょうかん - drug czar/Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy/ONDCP
  • ける | いかける - といかける - to ask a question
  • す - といかえす - to ask again/to ask back
  • - もんだいかいけつ - problem-solving
  • - もんどうむよう - there being no use in arguing (about it)
  • わせる - といあわせる - to enquire/to inquire/to seek information
  • - もんだい - problem/question
  • - もんだいてん - the point at issue
  • める | いつめる - といつめる - to press a question/to cross-examine
  • う | う - とう - to ask/to question/to inquire | to charge (i.e. with a crime)/to accuse | to care (about) | without regard to (with negative verb)
  • - もんだいじ - problem child
  • - がくもんじょ - place of study/school
  • う - うらどう - to ascertain a person's innermost feelings
  • - しゃもん | しゃくもん - inquiring/enquiring
  • - もんだいし - viewed as a problem
  • - せいじょもんだい - question based on rearranging (words) into the correct order
  • - とんや | といや - wholesale store
  • - ぎもんし - holding in doubt
  • わせ | せ - といあわせ - enquiry/inquiry/ENQ/query/interrogation
  • | - ふしんじんもん - police questioning (of a suspicious person)
  • - かくもんだい - nuclear issue/nuclear problem
  • - じもん - asking oneself
  • - いちもん - a question
  • - なんもんさんせき - mountain (pile) of difficult problems
  • - もんだいはつげん - problematical statement/controversial statement
  • 2000み - にせんねんもんだいたいさくずみ - Y2K compliant
  • - なおぎもんがそん - A doubt still remains
  • - もんだいしょうほう - unscrupulous (crooked, fraudulent) business practices/pernicious sales methods
  • - こべつほうもん - door-to-door visit/door-to-door canvassing/door-to-door canvasing
  • - きんせんもんだい - money matter/question of money/money trouble
  • 2000 - にせんねんもんだい - Y2K bug/year 2000 problem
  • - もん - counter for questions
  • - しんぶんがくもん - knowledge gained (information acquired) from newspapers
  • - そんぱいもんだい - question of maintenance or abolition (of an institution, organization, etc.)
  • - もんせき - blame/censure/reproof/reprimand/rebuke
  • - ぎもんひょうかい - one's doubts being cleared away (dispelled, resolved)
  • - せきにんもんだい - a question (an issue) of where responsibility (liability) lies/a question of who is responsible (to blame)
  • - げだいがくもん - putting on a knowing air when one only knows the title of the book (play, etc.)/pretending to understand the nature of something when one only knows its name
  • - みみがくもん - pick-up knowledge/second-hand knowledge/hearsay
  • - もんざい - accusation/indictment
  • - たくいつもんだい - multiple-choice question
  • - もんしん - interview (usually medical)/history taking
  • - ほうもんぎ - semi-formal kimono for women/visiting (gala) dress
  • - しょくむじんもん - ex-officio questioning/police questioning (of a suspicious person)/a police checkup
  • 退 - しんたいもんだい - a question of whether or not someone should resign
  • | - こうとうしもん - oral examination/interview
  • - ぐもんぐとう - silly questions and silly answers/a silly dialogue
  • - もんどうむえき - there being no use in arguing (about it)/being stone-deaf to someone's appeals
  • - しゃかいもんだい - social problem
  • - ぐんじこもんだん - military assistance advisory group
  • - こうがいもんだい - pollution problem or issue
  • - はんたいじんもん - cross-examination
  • - もんだいていき - raising a question/posing a problem/setting a hare running
  • わず - とわず - regardless of
  • - こんにゃくもんどう - an irrelevant and incoherent dialogue/dialogue at cross purposes/an off-the-beam response
  • | ご - ごかもん - a question from the emperor
  • - ゆうどうじんもん - a leading question
  • - しつもんしょ - written inquiry/written enquiry
  • - ほうもんしゃ - visitor
  • - そうかつしつもん - general interpellation (in the Diet)
  • - ほうもんはんばい - door-to-door selling
  • - ちょくせつじんもん - direct examination
  • - じんこうもんだい - population problem
  • - じんていじんもん - establishing the identity of a witness
  • - じんしゅもんだい - a race problem
  • - しゅうじぎもん - rhetorical question
  • - こめどんや | こめどいや - wholesale rice dealer
  • - けいやくもんだい - contract dispute
  • - じもんじとう - answering one's own question/wondering to oneself/soliloquizing/soliloquising
  • - こくさいでんしんでんわしもんいいんかい - International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee/CCITT
  • - じゆうもんだい - (in competitive sports) a free exercise
  • - ていどもんだい - question of degree
  • わせ - こうぞうかといあわせげんご - structured query language/SQL
  • - さもんいいんかい - court of inquiry/court of enquiry
  • - じんていしつもん - establishing the identity of a defendant
  • - もんだいさいけん - problem loans
  • - もんせきけつぎ - (decision to) censure (as issued by the upper house of parliament)
  • - ろうどうもんだい - labor problem/labour problem
  • - こくさいもんだい - international problem
  • す - といなおす - to question/to query
  • - さいちょくせつじんもん - redirect examination
  • - ごうもんだい - the rack
  • - こくじもんだい - problems pertaining to a nation's script
  • - ぎもんひょう - disputed ballot
  • - かんきょうもんだいせんもんか - environmentalist
  • - いっぱんしつもん - general interpellation
  • 調 - じんもんちょうしょ - interrogatory
  • フェルマーの | フェルマの - フェルマーのもんだい | フェルマのもんだい - Fermat's problem
  • - ふじんもんだい - women's issues
  • - いもんひん - comfort article
  • - きもん - tricky question
  • - いもんぶくろ - soldier's comfort bag
  • - なんぼくもんだい - North-South problem
  • - ひょうけいほうもん - courtesy call
  • - ほうりつもんだい - legal problem
  • - ちょうもんきゃく - condolence caller
  • - もんだいりょういき - problem area
  • - じかんのもんだい - just a matter of time
  • - はつもん - asking or putting a question/questioning
  • - りんしょうじんもん - clinical examination
  • わせ - といあわせさき - reference
  • - れんしゅうもんだい - exercises/practice problem/practise problem
  • わせ - といあわせじょう - letter of inquiry/letter of enquiry
  • - もんだいげき - controversial or problem play
  • エネルギー - エネルギーもんだい - energy problems
  • わずり - とわずがたり - unprompted remark or statement
  • - ぜんもん - all the questions (in exam)
  • - もんだいがい - unthinkable/out of the question
  • - しょくむしつもん - police questioning
  • - もんだいいしき - awareness of the issues
  • - げんきんどんや - cash-basis wholesaler
  • - せいじもんだい - political issue (problem)
  • - ほうもんきゃく - caller/visitor
  • - なんもんだい - difficult problem or question
  • - しげんもんだい - resources problem
  • - じっさいもんだい - practical question (problem)
  • - じゅうたくもんだい - housing problem
  • - じゅうだいもんだい - serious (vital) question/a grave issue/a matter of grave concern
  • - かんきょうもんだい - environmental problem (issue)
  • - けいざいもんだい - economic problem
  • - しかつもんだい - matter of life or death/life-and-death problem
  • - しけんもんだい - examination (exam) questions/questions for an examination
  • - しもんいいんかい - advisory committee (council, panel)
  • - かんれんしつもん - follow-up question/related question/interpellation on related matters
  • - けいさんもんだい - numerical calculation
  • - けんしょうもんだい - problem for a prize contest
  • - じじもんだい - current question/current topics
  • う - かなえのけいちょうをとう - to call one's ability into question/to weigh one's ability
  • かして使う - がくもんをいかしてつかう - to put one's knowledge to practical use
  • - かていほうもん - (a round of) calls at the homes of one's pupils
  • す - がくもんにこころざす - to set one's heart on learning
  • - こもんべんごし - legal adviser/legal advisor/corporation lawyer/family lawyer
  • かす - がくもんをいかす - to put one's learning to practical use
  • - こうつうもんだい - traffic problem
  • 西わず - ようのとうざいをとわず - in all parts of the world/both in the Occident and the Orient
  • - こもんだん - advisory body
  • われて - さつじんざいにとわれて - on a charge of murder
  • - がいもんだい - the matter in question/the said problem
  • め - がくもんのすすめ - encouragement of learning
  • わず - けいけんをとわず - no experience necessary
  • - もんだいのてん - point in dispute
  • - がくもんのと - scholar/student
  • - こたえにくいしつもん - awkward (difficult) question
  • プラトンの - プラトンのもんだい - Plato's problem
  • える - しつもんにこたえる - to answer a question
  • う - しんをとう - to make an appeal to the confidence of
  • め - しつもんぜめ - barrage of questions
  • - すえのもんだい - a mere trifle
  • める - もんだいをつめる - to work toward a solution to a problem
  • う - もんだいをあつかう - to deal with (handle) a matter
  • いをかける | いをける - といをかける - to ask a question of (a person)
  • けない - とけないもんだい - insoluble problem
  • - なまがくもん - imperfect (superficial) knowledge
  • - めんぼくにかかるもんだい - problem concerning one's honor (honour)