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
chat; gossip; spin a yarn
to switch one's allegiance to a new patron
to knock on a door
stepping stone to a job or success
Doumen district of Zhuhai city zhū hǎi shì, Guangdong
Doumen District, Zhuhai, Guangdong
side door
unorthodox way; heretical group
Yimen county in Yuxi yù xī, Yunnan
Yimen county in Yuxi yù xī, Yunnan
family with a literary reputation (idiom); literary family
main entrance; secret society
(railway) platform screen doors; platform-edge doors
entrance portal (to a palace); propylaeum
Chaoyangmen neighborhood of Beijing
to close the door (also fig.)
fig. to cut off contact; to shut the door and remain inside
Dongzhimen neighborhood of Beijing
Panmunjom, border village in Korean DMZ
Panmunjom village on the DMZ between North and South Korea
humble background; poor family background
fig. my humble house
gate; door with grating; turnstile
nuclear threshold