尋問

See also: 寻问

Chinese

		to search; to look for; to seek	to ask
trad. (尋問)		尋	問
simp. (寻问)		寻	问

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xúnwèn

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄣˊ ㄨㄣˋ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xúnwèn
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣˊ ㄨㄣˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: syúnwùn
  - Wade–Giles: hsün²-wên⁴
  - Yale: syún-wèn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyunwenn
  - Palladius: сюньвэнь (sjunʹvɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕyn³⁵ wən⁵¹/
  - Homophones:
    ^edit
    ^edit
    尋問 / 寻问
    詢問 / 询问

Verb

尋問

(literary) to ask about; to make enquiries

Japanese

Kanji in this term
尋	問
じん Grade: S	もん Grade: 3
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) じんもん [jìńmóń] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [d͡ʑĩmːõ̞ɴ]

Noun

尋(じん)問(もん) • (jinmon)

questioning, interrogation
- 1907, 夏目漱石, 文芸の哲学的基礎:
  尋問(じんもん)に答(こた)えるのが不利益(ふりえき)だと悟(さと)って、いよいよ唖(おし)の真似(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.
cross examination

Verb

尋(じん)問(もん)する • (jinmon suru) suru (stem 尋(じん)問(もん)し (jinmon shi), past 尋(じん)問(もん)した (jinmon shita))

to question, to interrogate
to cross examine

Conjugation

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

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

^ 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

“尋問”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026