責問

See also: 责问

Chinese

	duty; responsibility; to reproach duty; responsibility; to reproach; to blame	to ask
trad. (責問)	責	問
simp. (责问)	责	问
anagram	問責／问责

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zéwèn

(Zhuyin): ㄗㄜˊ ㄨㄣˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zaak³ man⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chit-būn / chek-būn / chit-mn̄g / chek-mn̄g / chek-mūi

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zéwèn
  - Zhuyin: ㄗㄜˊ ㄨㄣˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: zéwùn
  - Wade–Giles: tsê²-wên⁴
  - Yale: dzé-wèn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzerwenn
  - Palladius: цзэвэнь (czɛvɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɤ³⁵ wən⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: zaak³ man⁶
  - Yale: jaak mahn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzaak⁸ man⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: zag³ men⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saːk̚³ mɐn²²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chit-būn
  - Tâi-lô: tsit-būn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: citbun
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sit̚⁵⁻²⁴ bun⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chek-būn
  - Tâi-lô: tsik-būn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zekbun
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siɪk̚³²⁻⁴ bun²²/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡siɪk̚³²⁻⁴ bun³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siɪk̚³²⁻⁵ bun²²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chit-mn̄g
  - Tâi-lô: tsit-mn̄g
  - Phofsit Daibuun: citmng
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sit̚⁵⁻²⁴ mŋ̍⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chek-mn̄g
  - Tâi-lô: tsik-mn̄g
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zekmng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siɪk̚³²⁻⁴ mŋ̍²²/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡siɪk̚³²⁻⁴ mŋ̍³³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chek-mūi
  - Tâi-lô: tsik-muī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zekmui
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siɪk̚³²⁻⁵ muĩ²²/

Verb

責問

to call to account; to hold to account; to take to task

Synonyms

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叮問 / 叮问 (dīngwèn) (dialectal)
問 / 问 (wèn) (literary, or in compounds)
盤問 / 盘问 (pánwèn)
詰問 / 诘问 (jiéwèn) (literary)
詰責 / 诘责 (jiézé) (literary)
質問 / 质问 (zhìwèn)
追問 / 追问 (zhuīwèn)