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
Xaitongmoin County in Tibet, China
Xaitongmoin County, Shigatse, Tibet
rich and powerful (families); aristocratic; big shots
cardia (anatomy)
guests crowd the house; many visitors come
many guests visit; house full of guests
fig. to gain influence by pull or unofficial channels
to use social connections; to toady to influential people
to wear out the doorstep (idiom); to crowd at sb's door
car door; door of bus, railway carriage etc
military branch
revolving door; turnstile
to enter a door; to go in; to learn the basics of a subject
to take refuge in religious life
(of a woman) to marry; to pass through a doorway
(to go to) distant parts; faraway; a distant relative
near and distant relatives
side door; wicket door
strange; unusual; evil ways
lit. devil's gate, crooked path (idiom); corrupt practices
department; division; section
Kinmen, Taiwan-held islands off Fujian
Kinmen Island, Taiwan-controlled near Fujian
Kinmen County, islands of Taiwan