问卷

• Pinyin: wèn juàn
• Hanzi breakdown: 问 = 口 + 门 (mouth at the door — asking); 卷 = 卩 + 己 (a rolled-up form or sheet of paper)

Meaning

Questionnaire; survey form. A set of printed or digital questions designed to collect information, opinions, or data from respondents.

Standard term in academic research, market surveys, and public administration. Common collocations: 填写问卷 (fill in a questionnaire), 问卷调查 (questionnaire survey), 调查问卷 (survey questionnaire), 发放问卷 (distribute questionnaires). Online versions are called 网络问卷 or 电子问卷.

Examples

1. 研究团队向全校学生发放了一份关于学习习惯的问卷，共收回有效样本八百份。 The research team distributed a questionnaire about study habits to students across the school and received 800 valid responses.
2. 在正式启动项目之前，公司委托第三方机构设计了详细的市场调查问卷。 Before officially launching the project, the company commissioned a third-party organization to design a detailed market-research questionnaire.
3. 填写这份问卷大约需要十分钟，您的反馈对我们改进产品至关重要。 This questionnaire takes about ten minutes to complete, and your feedback is crucial to improving our product.

Usage Guide

Context: research, business, education

Tone: neutral

Do Say

• 本次调查采用匿名问卷的形式，所有填写内容仅用于学术研究，不会对外公开。(This survey uses an anonymous questionnaire format; all completed content is for academic research only and will not be disclosed.)
• 问卷设计时要注意措辞中立，避免诱导性问题干扰受访者的真实判断。(When designing a questionnaire, pay attention to using neutral language and avoid leading questions that might interfere with respondents' genuine assessments.)

Don't Say

• 我写了一份问题问卷 — the term is simply 问卷; the character 问 already means 'question,' so adding 问题 is redundant; say 设计了一份问卷 (designed a questionnaire)

Origin & History

问 (ask, question) + 卷 (scroll, sheet, form)

Cultural Context

Generation: All ages

Social background: Universal