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
Cyanobacteria (phylum of blue-green algae)
Cyanobacteria (phylum of blue-green algae)
Sumatra, one of the Indonesian islands
Sumatra (one of the Indonesian islands)
Humen, town in Guangdong; Pearl River strait
Humen Town in Dongguan, Guangdong
administrative department; administration
government office in feudal China; yamen
angiosperms; phylum of flowering plants
lit. to decorate the front of one's store (idiom)
gymnosperm (plants with seed contained in a cone)
Xizhimen neighborhood of Beijing
surname Ximen
Siemens (company name)
Siemens AG
Ximen Qing, lecherous man in Jin Ping Mei
Ximending (neighborhood in Wanhua district, Taipei)
Ximen Bao, ancient Wei official
corner gate
to visit sb
melody; pitch or key (music); tone
valve
erhua variant of diào mén