Kanji1 / 11
問 kanji
question, ask, problem
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
モン
Kun readings
とうといとん
Words with 問
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —地球環境問題global environment problems; global environmental issues
- —北方領土問題Northern Territories dispute; Kuril Islands dispute
- —不問に付するto ignore (a fault, misstep, issue, etc.); to disregard; to overlook; to pass over; to let go unquestioned
- —疑問符がつくthe question remains; it comes into question
- —ひっかけ問題trick question
- —トロッコ問題trolley problem (thought experiment)
- —国語国字問題issues pertaining to a nation's script (e.g. standardization of kanji in Japanese)
- —勾配消失問題vanishing gradient problem (in machine learning)
- —森友学園問題Moritomo Gakuen scandal (2017)
- —学問のすすめAn Encouragement of Learning (series of essays by Yukichi Fukuzawa, publ. 1872-1876)
- —ユダヤ人問題(problem of) antisemitism; issue of prejudice, discrimination, and persecution against Jews; Jewish question; the Jewish Question (in Nazi ideology)
- —答えにくい質問awkward (difficult) question
- —プラトンの問題Plato's problem
- —エネルギー問題energy problems; energy issues
- —環境問題専門家environmentalist
- —こんにゃく問答irrelevant and incoherent dialogue; meaningless parlor debate; dialogue at cross purposes
- —拷問等禁止条約United Nations Convention Against Torture (1987)
- —学問に王道なしthere are no shortcuts in learning
- —問題にならないnot becoming a problem; out of the question; not worth considering; insignificant; negligible; inconsequential; counting for nothing
- —エルサレム問題the Jerusalem problem