mén

gate, door, entrance, opening

DEFINITIONS

門 mén
  • surname Men
  • gate
  • door
  • CL:扇[shan4]
  • gateway
  • doorway
  • CL:個|个[ge4]
  • opening
  • valve
  • switch
  • way to do something
  • knack
  • family
  • house
  • (religious) sect
  • school (of thought)
  • class
  • category
  • phylum or division (taxonomy)
  • classifier for large guns
  • classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology
  • (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

STROKES

WORDS

革出山 gé chū shān mén to excommunicate (from a Buddhist monastery)
革出教 gé chū jiào mén to excommunicate (from a church)
壯戶 dǐng mén zhuàng hù to support the family business (idiom)
飛機艙 fēi jī cāng mén airplane cabin door
饗以閉羹 xiǎng yǐ bì mén gēng to close the door in one's face (idiom)
關 guǐ mén guān the gates of hell
鯉魚跳龍 lǐ yú tiào lóng mén to make a significant advance in one's career (idiom); to get one's big break
宴 hóng mén yàn Feast at Hongmen; (fig.) banquet set up with the aim of murdering a guest; refers to a famous episode in 206 BC when future Han emperor Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] escaped attempted murder by his rival Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3]
冬 mài mén dōng dwarf lilyturf (Ophiopogon japonicus), its tuber used in TCM
lóng mén Longmen county in Huizhou 惠州[Hui4 zhou1], Guangdong; mythical Dragon gate where a carp can transform into a dragon
刨 lóng mén bào double column surface grinding machine
山 lóng mén shān Mt Longmen, the northwest boundary of the Sichuan basin, an active geological fault line; Mt Longmen in Shandong; Mt Longmen in Henan
山斷層 lóng mén shān duàn céng Longmenshan fault line, a tectonically active thrust fault line at the northwest boundary of the Sichuan basin
斷層 lóng mén duàn céng Longmenshan fault line, a tectonically active thrust fault line at the northwest boundary of the Sichuan basin
石窟 lóng mén shí kū Longmen Grottoes at Luoyang 洛陽|洛阳[Luo4 yang2], Henan
縣 lóng mén xiàn Longmen county in Huizhou 惠州[Hui4 zhou1], Guangdong