もん

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Japanese

Etymology 1

Changed from 物(もの) (mono); became common in the Kantō dialects from the late Edo period.

Noun

もん • (mon) 

  1. 物: thing (Alternative form of もの mono)
    人(じん)生(せい)はそんなもんだ。
    Jinsei wa sonna mon da.
    Such is life.
    (literally, “Life is that sort of thing.”)

Particle

もん • (mon) 

  1. Synonym of もの (mono)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of もん – see the following entries.
【門】2
a gate
(religion) a sect, school of thought
(biology) a phylum, division
Short for 門限 (mongen): a curfew
counter for cannons or large guns
doorway, exit and entrance
clan, family, kin
teaching institution
set of academic doctrines
Used in Sanskrit transliterations
【悶】H
agony
【紋】S
Synonym of 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”)
【文】1
the mon, an old currency
a unit of length for measuring the size of one's foot (from the way that the mon coins would be lined up and used as a kind of inch marker)
a character, a letter
writing, something written
a magical spell
(also spelled 紋) a design, a pattern
(also spelled 紋) a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”)
(This term, もん, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as もん, see Category:Japanese kanji read as もん.)
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