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

Noun

尋問 (hiragana じんもん, rōmaji jinmon)

  1. questioning, interrogation
    • 1907, 夏目漱石, 文芸の哲学的基礎:
       (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) () ()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

尋問する (hiragana じんもんする, rōmaji jinmon suru)

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

Conjugation

References

  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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