PROBLEM  問題

DIFFICULT AND THEORETICALLY IMPORTANT ASK:question for which one BELIEVES one LACKS an APPROPRIATE ANSWER.
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Hypernym
  • ASKREQUEST an ANSWER.
    • REQUESTTo ADDRESS someone so as to TRY TO CAUSE him/her TO ACT in a certain way.
      • ADDRESSSPEAK OR WRITE INTENDING ANOTHER TO HEAR OR READ AND TO REACT to IT. 
        • SPEAKACT so as to USE WORDS FOR SHOWING MEANING.*Speech by speaker X, directed towards audience Y, in order to communicate message Z....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. It is very difficult to identify a standard classical Chinese keyword that corresponds to the notion of an intellectual problem or issue. The closest one can come is probably duān 端 "topic".

2. Wèn nàn 問難 refers to a problem raised.

3. Wèn 問 may refer not only to the raising of a topic for discussion.

Modern Chinese Criteria
問題 is the standard modern word for a problem of any kind.

疑問 focusses on the doubts attached to a problematic intellectual question raised.

疑難 refers to a doubtful point or intellectual difficulty.

疑案 refers in a rather formal way to some typically official issue.

疑竇 refers to a problem or issue as a source for serious suspicion.

疑團 identifies a whole area of problematic confusion.

疑雲 focusses in a figurative way on the doubtfulness surrounding a problem.

疑點 focusses precisely on a particular individual problematic point.

疑義 focusses in a literary way on a doubtful point, typically a point of interpretation.

謎 may refer hyperbolically to an insoluble problem.

悶葫蘆 is a figurative highly colloquial term for a puzzle.

rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

Words

問  wèn OC: mɯns MC: mi̯un 14 Attributions

refers to a problem as an impersonal question when the subject or questioner as well as the addressee are understood.

    Syntactic words
  • nabactproblem raised; objection
  • nabtextCHEMLA 2003:
  • viactraise problems, engage in problematisation
  • vt(oN)problematise a contextually determinate subject N
  • vt[0]+N.+Vone might raise a problem about this (and say...)
  • vt[0]+V[0]The following problem arises: 問曰
  • vtoNraise problems regarding
難  nàn OC: mɢlaans MC: nɑn 14 Attributions

comes to refer to a problem rather than a difficulty when the difficulty involved turns out to be of an intellectual nature.

    Syntactic words
  • nabactproblem, objection raised 解難
  • nabpluraldifficulties; complex situations; problemsCH
  • vibe problematic; be hard to understand; be a weird thing to deal with; be the problematic pointCH
  • viactraise difficulties and problems, problematise
  • vt(oN)raise difficult problems about this
  • vtoNraise difficult problems concerning
患  huàn OC: ɢroons MC: ɦɣan 3 Attributions

    Word relations
  • Synon: 難/PROBLEM comes to refer to a problem rather than a difficulty when the difficulty involved turns out to be of an intellectual nature.

    Syntactic words
  • nabmetaphysicalproblem
  • vt+prep+Ncausativecause problems to NDS
  • vtoSrun into the problem that S, be faced with the problem thatCH
問難  wèn nàn OC: mɯns mɢlaans MC: mi̯un nɑn 3 Attributions

refers to the raising of objections and problems in general.

    Syntactic words
  • NPabactobjections; problems
  • VPtoNraise problems with (a person, or concerning a subject matter or point of view put forward)
難問  nàn wèn OC: mɢlaans mɯns MC: nɑn mi̯un 3 Attributions

refers to the raising of objections and problems in general, and is hard to distinguish from 問難.

    Syntactic words
  • NPabactthe raising of problems and objections; problems raised
  • VPiactproblematise; raise problems
端  duān OC: toon MC: tʷɑn 2 Attributions

It is very difficult to identify a classical Chinese word that corresponds to the notion of an intellectual problem or issue. The closest one can come is probably duān 端.

    Syntactic words
  • nabconceptsubject matter, issue????
有事  yǒu shì MC: hjuwX dzriH OC: ɢʷɯʔ dzrɯsCH 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • VPi0there is a problem; there is a problematic social issueCH
邛  qióng MC: gjowng OC: ɡoŋDS 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • nab.post-Nproblem for N; headache for NDS
疑惑  yí huò OC: ŋɡɯ ɡʷɯɯɡ MC: ŋɨ ɦək 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPabproblemdoubtful points; problems

Existing SW for

Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: