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
(retail) store
deserted place; few visitors; slow business
front yard as busy as a marketplace (idiom)
veranda; portico; stoop
entrance hall; vestibule
access
disciple
web portal; family; family status
sectarian bias; parochialism
web portal
open door policy
gatekeeper; porter; gatehouse
door; the opening panel of a door
door knob; door handle; also pr. mén bà
Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist
doorstop
family prestige
doorpost
variant of mén shuān
door frame
fig. family's social status; lintel (of a door)
threshold; doorstep; sill
passageway; archway
sect; school (group of followers of a particular doctrine)