Character Details
| ask (to) | Ascii: 24819 | w495 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 问 | wèn | wun | 4 | 门 (door) + 口 (mouth) → ask | 问 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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The mouth at the gates of hell asks three questions. If you get them all right you can save yourself. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - May I ask? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 169 - 车 | chē | long | vehicle | vehicle frame | 车 轻 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 门 (door) + 口 (mouth) → ask | 门 (semantic) | 口 (phonetic) | phonetic from 口 | ||||||||