mén

door; gate; doorway

Character data

Radical ⾨ (169.0)
Strokes 8
SIMPLIFIED

Definitions

門 mén
  1. 1. door
  2. 2. gate
  3. 3. doorway
  4. 4. gateway
  5. 5. house
  6. 6. family
  7. 7. school (of thought)
  8. 8. classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology
  9. 9. class
  10. 10. category
  11. 11. way to do something
  12. 12. knack
  13. 13. opening
  14. 14. valve
  15. 15. switch
  16. 16. (religious) sect
  17. 17. phylum or division (taxonomy)
  18. 18. classifier for large guns
  19. 19. (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)
  20. 20. surname Men
  21. 21. CL shàn
  22. 22. CL

Stroke order

門 stroke order diagram

Words containing 門

Word Meaning
watchman; janitor
Shanghai stone-gate lane house style
Shimen, district in New Taipei, Taiwan
Shimen county in Changde cháng dé, Hunan
Shimen Township in New Taipei, Taiwan
to score a goal (in football, hockey etc)
to break the door down and enter (idiom)
diatom phylum of algae
fluxgate (electrical engineering)
Qimen county in Huangshan huáng shān, Anhui
Qimen county in Huangshan huáng shān, Anhui
the five schools of Chan Buddhism (idiom)
know world events without leaving home
know world affairs without leaving home
fig. deep reverence for one's master
the knack (of doing sth); know-how; a trick
the knack (of doing sth); an ingenious method; know-how
throttle
living in poverty
to come from a distinguished family
Solomon (name); Solomon (Islands)
astonishing; fantastic; unique skill
the Qing dynasty equivalent of the Foreign Office
Achilles' heel; chink in the armor
baffling case with mixed stories; Rashomon