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 excommunicate (from a Buddhist monastery)
to excommunicate (from a church)
to support the family business (idiom)
airplane cabin door
to close the door in one's face (idiom)
the gates of hell
to make a significant advance in one's career (idiom)
(fig.) banquet set up with the aim of murdering a guest
dwarf lilyturf (Ophiopogon japonicus), its tuber used in TCM
Longmen county in Huizhou huì zhōu, Guangdong
double column surface grinding machine
Mt Longmen, the northwest boundary of the Sichuan basin, an active geological fault line
Longmenshan fault zone in Sichuan
Longmenshan fault line in Sichuan
Longmen Grottoes at Luoyang luò yáng, Henan
Longmen county in Huizhou huì zhōu, Guangdong
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