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
one problem after another; new trouble appears
avoid one danger, meet another
to accelerate; to step on the gas
north gate; Beimen area in Tainan, Taiwan
Beimen Township in Tainan, Taiwan
turnstile
half-open door; fig. prostitute
erhua variant of bàn kāi mén
The Southern Heavenly Gates
Alpha Centauri or Rigel Kentaurus
Carmen (name)
Camembert (soft, creamy French cheese)
camembert cheese
roll-up door
to knock on a door
to be refused entrance (idiom); to find the door closed
sweep the snow from your own door step, don't worry about the frost on your neighbor's roof (idiom)
a door that hinges upwards; an overhung door
famous family; prestigious house
offspring a famous family (idiom); good breeding
epiglottis
(coll.) (emphasizing a rhetorical question) what; what kind
person bringing bad luck
person bringing bad luck
voice; windpipe