to ask / to inquire

= + : Willy Walrus sees a mouthwatering mandarin hanging over a door in the floor of the encampment's bathroom. He asks himself: "is it a trap?"
to ask; to inquire

問 character breakdown

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
surname Men
gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

Mahatma Gandhi wants his revenge on the Chinese emperor! Like a spider he sits in the upper left corner of the encampment's kitchen, ready to strike with the trap door he installed in the floor.

Characters with 問 as component

問 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 問

not to hear, not to question (idiom) / to show no interest in sth / uncritical / not in the least concerned
to dig up roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth
to pay no attention to / to disregard / to ignore / to let go unpunished / to let off
(honorific) May I ask?
not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom) / not to distinguish between right and wrong
not feel ashamed to ask and learn from one's subordinates
to study / to engage in scholarship
Yuan Haowen (1190-1257), famous poet Northern China during the Jin-Yuan transition
preliminary question / priority problem / issues requiring more immediate attention
When you enter a country, enquire about the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do / When in Rome, do as the Romans do
to have sth go wrong / to have a problem arise / to give problems
lit. to reply "don't know" whatever the question (idiom) / fig. absolutely no idea of what's going on / complete ignorance
the three rural issues: agriculture, rural areas and peasants
three-body problem (mechanics)
no matter what may happen (idiom)

Sentences with 問

問 currently does not appear in any sentence.