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 open the throttle; to accelerate; to let her rip
to do a secret or dishonest deal; fig. under the counter
to open a door (lit. and fig.); to open for business
to invite trouble by leaving things unguarded
New Year opening firecrackers; first success
a good beginning
get straight to the point
sluice gate
valve (mechanical)
young unmarried lady role in Chinese opera
to break into a house when nobody is home
(of a shop etc) to close (for the night, or permanently)
close a business for good; go out of business
last disciple of a master
to catch a thief by closing his escape route (idiom)
Fuchengmen neighborhood of Beijing
security door
defensive gate
amen (loanword)
Achaemenid Empire of Persian (559-330 BC)
vulva; pudenda
Timon of Athens, play by Shakespeare
two simultaneous happy events in the family
Phone-gate; phone record corruption scandal
electric switch