mén

gate, door, entrance, opening

DEFINITIONS

門 mén
  • surname Men
  • gate
  • door
  • CL:扇[shan4]
  • gateway
  • doorway
  • CL:個|个[ge4]
  • opening
  • valve
  • switch
  • way to do something
  • knack
  • family
  • house
  • (religious) sect
  • school (of thought)
  • class
  • category
  • phylum or division (taxonomy)
  • classifier for large guns
  • classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology
  • (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

STROKES

WORDS

藍菌 lán jūn mén Cyanobacteria (phylum of blue-green algae)
藍藻 lán zǎo mén Cyanobacteria (phylum of blue-green algae)
答臘 sū mén dá là Sumatra, one of the Indonesian islands
答臘島 sū mén dá là dǎo Sumatra (one of the Indonesian islands)
達臘 sū mén dá là variant of 蘇門答臘|苏门答腊[Su1 men2 da2 la4]
hǔ mén the Bocca Tigris, a narrow strait in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong; Humen Town 虎門鎮|虎门镇[Hu3 men2 Zhen4]
鎮 hǔ mén zhèn Humen Town, also known as Taiping 太平[Tai4 ping2], a town within Dongguan prefecture-level city 東莞市|东莞市[Dong1 guan3 shi4], Guangdong
行政部 xíng zhèng bù mén administrative department; administration; executive (government branch)
yá men government office in feudal China; yamen
被子植物 bèi zǐ zhí wù mén angiospermae (phylum of flowering plants with seed contained in a fruit)
面 zhuāng mén miàn see 裝點門面|装点门面[zhuang1 dian3 men2 mian4]
裝點面 zhuāng diǎn mén miàn lit. to decorate the front of one's store (idiom); fig. to embellish (one's CV, etc); to keep up appearances; to put up a front
裸子植物 luǒ zǐ zhí wù mén gymnosperm (plants with seed contained in a cone)
西直 xī zhí mén Xizhimen neighborhood of Beijing; the main northwest gate of Beijing
西 xī mén surname Ximen
西子 xī mén zǐ Siemens (company name)
西子公司 xī mén zǐ gōng sī Siemens AG
西慶 xī mén qìng Ximen Qing, character from 金瓶梅[Jin1 ping2 mei2] and 水滸傳|水浒传[Shui3 hu3 Zhuan4]
西町 xī mén dīng Ximending (neighborhood in Wanhua district, Taipei)
西豹 xī mén bào Xi Menbao (active around 422 BC), statesman, general and hydraulic engineer of Wei state 魏國|魏国[Wei4 guo2]
jiǎo mén corner gate
yì mén to visit sb
調 diào mén melody; pitch or key (music); tone; style; point of view
調 tiáo mén valve
調兒 diào mén r erhua variant of 調門|调门[diao4 men2]