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
to lock the door
lit. General Iron is guarding the door (idiom)
officials come and go; office stays the same
disciple; follower; hanger-on (on an aristocrat's home)
abbr. for tiān mén dōng, asparagus
door to door
in front of the door
doorway; gate
deserted; with very few visitors
doorstop
variant of mén kǎn
erhua variant of mén kǎn
doormat
wooden or stone block supporting the axle of a door
outside the door
layman
social influence; pull; door
hanger-on; visitor (in a nobleman's house)
goalkeeper (soccer, hockey etc); official gatekeeper
couplet (hung on each side of the door frame)
gate
Menba ethnic group
retail sales
retail department; section of a retail store