mén

gate, door, entrance, opening

HSK 2 #185

DEFINITIONS

门 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

双喜临 shuāng xǐ lín mén two simultaneous happy events in the family
diàn mén electric switch
fó mén Buddhism
吃闭羹 chī bì mén gēng to be refused entrance (idiom); to find the door closed
冬 tiān mén dōng asparagus
弹簧 tán huáng mén swing door
páng mén side door
左道 páng mén zuǒ dào dissenting religious sect (idiom); heretical school of opinion; dissident group
子 nǎo mén zi forehead (dialect)
bēn mén cardia (anatomy)
对 mén duì couplet (hung on each side of the door frame)
市部 mén shì bù retail department; section of a retail store
捷列夫 mén jié liè fū Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907), Russian chemist who introduced the periodic table
脸 mén liǎn shop front; facade
类 mén lèi category; kind; class
齿 mén chǐ incisor
鸿宴 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]
lóng mén Longmen county in Huizhou 惠州[Hui4 zhou1], Guangdong; mythical Dragon gate where a carp can transform into a dragon
hóu mén noble house
南天 nán tiān mén The Southern Heavenly Gates; a name for a mountain pass gate in several places
kòu mén to knock on a door
xìn mén fontanel (gap between the bones of an infant's skull)
太平 tài píng mén emergency exit
所罗群岛 suǒ luó mén qún dǎo Solomon Islands in southwest Pacific
挨户 āi mén āi hù see 挨家挨戶|挨家挨户[ai1 jia1 ai1 hu4]