问 - Mandarin word #233

问

wèn

Traditional: 問

HSK 2

#233 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to ask, to inquire

Stroke order

问

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I want to ask you a question.

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Stop asking.

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He asked me where I was.

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I would like to ask for directions.

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She asked me how my family was.

问 (wèn) means to ask, to inquire. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.

告诉

to tell, to inform

明白

to understand, clear, obvious

说

to say, to speak, to tell

听到

to hear, to catch (a sound)

知道

to know (a fact)

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 问.

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

This word is part of lesson 5.