门
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gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇[shan4]); valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure; way to do sth; knack; method; approach; family; household; lineage; (bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic); (bound form) class; category; division; phylum; classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc; (suffix) -gate (scandal)
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- 門 itself
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 門
- Common rank
- #73
- Unicode
- U+95E8
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Formation & memory
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How 门 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
An open doorway or gate
How to remember it
gate · Heisig RSH #1260
— as a component also called: gate
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 门
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 门口 | doorway; gate; CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 门票 | ticket (for theater, cinema etc) | |
| 天门市 | Tianmen sub-prefecture level city in Hubei | |
| 海门区 | Haimen, a district of Nantong City 南通市[Nan2 tong1 Shi4], Jiangsu | |
| 大门 | the Doors, US rock band | |
| 大门 | entrance; door; gate; large and influential family | |
| 门子 | door; doorman (old); hanger-on of an aristocrat; social influence; pull; classifier for re… | |
| 金门县 | Kinmen County, Taiwan (the Kinmen or Quemoy islands off the Fujian coast); Jinmen county i… | |
| 门人 | disciple; follower; hanger-on (at an aristocrat's home) | |
| 国门 | (archaic) capital's gate; country's border | |
| 山门 | monastery main gate (Buddhism); monastery | |
| 西门子 | Siemens (company name) | |
| 水门 | water valve; sluice gate; (aviation) water salute | |
| 门市 | retail sales; retail outlet; store | |
| 学门 | (Tw) field of knowledge; academic discipline | |
| 三门县 | Sanmen, a county in Taizhou City 台州市[Tai1 zhou1 Shi4], Zhejiang | |
| 门生 | disciple; student (of a famous master) | |
| 天安门 | Tiananmen Gate, entrance of the Imperial City in Beijing | |
| 门地 | variant of 門第|门第[men2 di4] | |
| 天门 | Tianmen sub-prefecture level city in Hubei |
Sound family
These characters use 门 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 门 sound part | gate, door, entrance, opening | |
| 问 | to ask about, to inquire after | |
| 闻 | news; to hear, to smell; to make known | |
| 闷 | gloomy, depressed, melancholy | |
| 们 | plural marker for pronouns and some nouns | |
| 闽 | Fujian province; a river; a tribe | |
| 闰 | intercalary; extra, surplus | |
| 蔺 | hay, straw; surname | |
| 闵 | to mourn, to grieve; to incite, to urge on | |
| 扪 | to stoke, to pat; to grope, to feel | |
| 訚 | respectful; to speak gently | |
| 钔 | mendelevium |