反問

See also: 反问

Chinese

		wrong side out or up; anti-	to ask
trad. (反問)		反	問
simp. (反问)		反	问

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fǎnwèn

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄢˇ ㄨㄣˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): faan² man⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoán-mn̄g / hoán-būn

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fǎnwèn
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄢˇ ㄨㄣˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fǎnwùn
  - Wade–Giles: fan³-wên⁴
  - Yale: fǎn-wèn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: faanwenn
  - Palladius: фаньвэнь (fanʹvɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fän²¹⁴⁻²¹ wən⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: faan² man⁶
  - Yale: fáan mahn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: faan² man⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: fan² men⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːn³⁵ mɐn²²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoán-mn̄g
  - Tâi-lô: huán-mn̄g
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoafnmng
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /huan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ mŋ̍²²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoán-būn
  - Tâi-lô: huán-būn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoafnbun
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /huan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bun²²/

Verb

反問

to answer a question with a question; to ask in reply

Synonyms

(Hokkien) 倒問／倒问

Noun

反問

(rhetoric) rhetorical question

Japanese

Kanji in this term
反	問
はん Grade: 3	もん Grade: 3
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) はんもん [hàńmóń] (Heiban – [0])^[1]^[2]^[3]
IPA^(key): [hã̠mːõ̞ɴ]

Noun

反(はん)問(もん) • (hanmon)

asking a question in return

Verb

反(はん)問(もん)する • (hanmon suru) suru (stem 反(はん)問(もん)し (hanmon shi), past 反(はん)問(もん)した (hanmon shita))

to ask a question in return
Synonym: 聞(き)き返(かえ)す (kikikaesu)
- 1914, 夏目漱石 [Natsume Sōseki], chapter 5, in こゝろ [Kokoro], 下先生と遺書 [Sensei's Testament]:
  三(さん)度(ど)目(め)にはこっちからとうとうその理(り)由(ゆう)を反(はん)問(もん)しなければならなくなりました。
  Sando-me ni wa kotchi kara tōtō sono riyū o hanmon shinakereba naranaku narimashita.
  On the third occasion I felt I finally had ask why they were asking me.

Conjugation

Conjugation of "反問する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	反問し	はんもんし	hanmon shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	反問し	はんもんし	hanmon shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	反問する	はんもんする	hanmon suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	反問する	はんもんする	hanmon suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	反問すれ	はんもんすれ	hanmon sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	反問せよ¹ 反問しろ²	はんもんせよ¹ はんもんしろ²	hanmon seyo¹ hanmon shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	反問される	はんもんされる	hanmon sareru
Causative	反問させる反問さす	はんもんさせるはんもんさす	hanmon saseru hanmon sasu
Potential	反問できる	はんもんできる	hanmon dekiru
Volitional	反問しよう	はんもんしよう	hanmon shiyō
Negative	反問しない	はんもんしない	hanmon shinai
Negative continuative	反問せず	はんもんせず	hanmon sezu
Formal	反問します	はんもんします	hanmon shimasu
Perfective	反問した	はんもんした	hanmon shita
Conjunctive	反問して	はんもんして	hanmon shite
Hypothetical conditional	反問すれば	はんもんすれば	hanmon sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (2016), NHK日本語発音アクセント新辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2020), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Eighth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN