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

Excuse me, may I ask...?
to visit / to call on / to interview / CL:次[ci4]
to question / to ask questions / to inquire / to bring to account / to interrogate
to question closely / to investigate in detail / to examine minutely / to get to the heart of the matter
to show an interest in / to get involved with
to ask questions / to interrogate
to demand an explanation
I would like to ask (usually used rhetorically) / one might well ask
lit. to examine roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth
a scholarly and inquisitive individual (idiom)
to visit friends and relations (idiom)
to mutually send greetings / to communicate / to exchange news
to create an issue / to cause a problem
to question intensely / to interrogate / to demand information
lit. to examine roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth
to visit the poor and ask about their suffering (idiom)
see 貨比三家不吃虧|货比三家不吃亏[huo4 bi3 san1 jia1 bu4 chi1 kui1]

Sentences with 问

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yào
zhua̅
ná
wèn
zuì