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
throat
sedan (motor car)
first return of bride to her parental home
fontanel (gap between the bones of an infant's skull)
fontanel (gap between the bones of an infant's skull)
chimney; window
Tutankhamen, king of ancient Egypt 1333-1323 BC
Tumen or Bumin Khan (-553), founder of Göktürk khanate
fig. there's no place like home
depend on parents at home, friends outside
city gate
a fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat (idiom); the bystander will also suffer
(zoology) phylum Porifera (sponges)
gate; entrance; door
Tiananmen Gate, entrance of the Imperial City in Beijing
Tiananmen Square
pants fly is down; the barn door is open
Tianmen sub-prefecture level city in Hubei
asparagus
asparagus family of plants
Tianmen sub-prefecture level city in Hubei
emergency exit
the Yi gate of dà liáng, capital of Wei wèi during Warring states
ancient Chinese divination tradition (still in use today)