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
Menyuan County in Qinghai
Menyuan Hui Autonomous County, Qinghai
Menyuan County in Qinghai, China
house number; door plate
incisor
croquet; goal ball (served by the goal keeper)
door knocker (in the shape of a ring)
student (of a famous master); disciple
well-matched families; a good marriage match
doorstop
door god
ticket (for theater, cinema etc)
guarded entrance
doorman; bell boy
family status
Monroe
Monroe Doctrine
couplet (hung on each side of the door frame)
shop front; facade
Mönchengladbach (city in Germany)
Mensa (loanword)
guard at gate; sentry
outpatient service
clinic; outpatient department (or consulting room)
way of doing sth; the right social connection