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尋問

尋問

See also: 寻问

Chinese

to search; to look for; to seek to ask
trad. (尋問)
simp. (寻问)

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

Noun

尋問 (hiragana じんもん, romaji jinmon)

  1. questioning, interrogation
    • 1907, 夏目漱石, 文芸の哲学的基礎:
      尋問 (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)真似 (まね)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, romaji jinmon suru)

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

Conjugation