もん

Japanese

Etymology 1

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

Noun

もん • (mon)

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)

Synonym of もの (mono)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of もん – see the following entries.

【門】2	[noun] a gate [noun] (religion) a sect, school of thought [noun] (biology) a phylum, division [noun] Short for 門限 (mongen): a curfew [counter] counter for cannons or large guns [affix] doorway, exit and entrance [affix] clan, family, kin [affix] teaching institution [affix] set of academic doctrines [affix] Used in Sanskrit transliterations
【悶】H	[noun] agony
【紋】S	[noun] Synonym of 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”)
【文】1	[noun] the mon, an old currency [noun] 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) [noun] a character, a letter [noun] writing, something written [noun] a magical spell [noun] (also spelled 紋) a design, a pattern [noun] (also spelled 紋) a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”)

(This term, もん, is an alternative spelling of the above Sino-Japanese terms.
For a list of all kanji read as もん, not just those used in Japanese terms, see Category:Japanese kanji read as もん.)

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