PROBLEM    問題

DIFFICULT AND THEORETICALLY IMPORTANT ASK:question for which one BELIEVES one LACKS an APPROPRIATE ANSWER.
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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 ／
Hypernym
  • ASK　REQUEST an ANSWER. (anc: 16/0, child: 2)
  • REQUEST　To ADDRESS someone so as to TRY TO CAUSE him/her TO ACT in a certain way. (anc: 15/0, child: 3)
  • ADDRESS　SPEAK OR WRITE INTENDING ANOTHER TO HEAR OR READ AND TO REACT to IT.  (anc: 14/0, child: 23)
Other Hypernyms
  • ASKnew-9b91efff-0c78-4984-91ef-ff0c78998455　REQUEST an ANSWER. (anc: 15/2, child: 2)
  • REQUESTnew-e03497b3-9936-480f-b497-b39936b80f3f　To ADDRESS someone so as to TRY TO CAUSE him/her TO ACT in a certain way. (anc: 14/1, child: 3)
  • ADDRESSnew-b2b104ff-6112-4947-b104-ff611229470d　SPEAK OR WRITE INTENDING ANOTHER TO HEAR OR READ AND TO REACT to IT.  (anc: 13/0, child: 23)
  • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 1.87

    AENIGMA

  • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 7.1397

    PROBLEM

  • Divisiones quae vulgo dicuntur Aristoteleae ( DIVISIONES 1906) p. B 42

    • Words (9 items)

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