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

问 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 问 as component

问 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 问

to ask (a question) in reply / to answer a question with a question / rhetorical question
tone of one's voice when asking a rhetorical question
introspection / to ask oneself
(literary) to inquire / to ask / question
to question closely / to make a detailed inquiry / to probe / to ask repeatedly
to call sb to account / to question angrily
"Duke Li of Wei Answering Emperor Taizong of Tang", military treatise attributed to Li Jing 李靖[Li3 Jing4] and one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1]
to ask for information / to inquire
to stump sb with a question
to stump / to baffle
to enquire, according to custom, after the name and horoscope of intended bride / one of a set of six traditional marriage protocols (六禮|六礼), in which name as well as date and time of birth (for horoscope) are formally requested of the prospective bride's family
lit. asking guests whether or not to butcher a chicken for them (idiom) / fig. hypocritical show of affection (or hospitality)
to hit the market
punitive force / a person setting out to deliver severe reproach
field horsetail (Equisetum arvense)
to hold accountable / to blame / to censure / to apportion blame
to hold accountable; to blame; to censure; to apportion blame

Sentences with 问

dìng
yào
zhua̅
ná
wèn
zuì