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

question / interrogation / doubt
to interrogate / to cross-examine / to inquire
to question / to ask / to raise a question
to inquire about
to be of no interest to anyone (idiom)
question (grammar) / interrogative sentence
(idiom) to sidestep the question / to answer evasively
to answer a question / question and answer
essay on policy in question and answer form used in imperial exams
lit. to be interested exclusively in the acquisition of estate (idiom) / fig. to have no lofty aspirations in life
interrogative pronoun (誰|谁, 什麼|什么, 哪兒|哪儿 etc)
knotty problem / intractable difficulty
lit. to examine roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth

Sentences with 問

問 currently does not appear in any sentence.