もん

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) 

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 [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.)