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試問
简 试问 · 繁 試問Mandarin · pinyin shì wèn
Meanings
- I would like to ask (usually used rhetorically)
- one might well ask
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4–4 · shi4 wen4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
si3 man6
Cantonese word readings for 試問. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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si3 man6
Pleco · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Word reading; meanings not aligned.
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verb
- (honorific, polite) may we ask; we should like to ask; it may well be asked
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