尋問

See also: 寻问

Chinese

to search; to look for; to seek to ask
trad. (尋問)
simp. (寻问)

Pronunciation


Verb

尋問

  1. (literary) to ask about; to make enquiries

Japanese

Kanji in this term
じん
Grade: S
もん
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation

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

Noun

(じん)(もん) • (jinmon) 

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

Verb

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

  1. to question, to interrogate
  2. to cross examine

Conjugation

References

  1. 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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