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門

mén

gate, door, entrance, opening; Kangxi radical 169

Strokes
8
Radical
門
HSK
—
Tone
2

Simplified form: 门

Stroke order

Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 门, the simplified form of 門. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

Example sentences

  • 有后门。

    Yǒu hòu mén

    There's a back entrance.

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  • 门开了。

    Mén kāi le

    The door opened.

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  • 我出门了。

    Wǒ chū mén le

    I'm gone.

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  • 走前门。

    Zǒu qián mén

    Use the front door.

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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 门

  • 门mén 2gate; door; gateway; doorway; 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)
  • 门口mén kǒu 2–3 doorway; gate
  • 门票mén piào 2–4 ticket (for theater, cinema etc)
  • 出门chū mén 1–2 to go out; to leave home; to go on a journey; away from home; (of a woman) to get married
  • 大门dà mén 4–2 entrance; door; gate; large and influential family
  • 部门bù mén 4–2 department; branch; section; division
  • 专门zhuān mén 1–2 specialist; specialized; customized
  • 上门shàng mén 4–2 to drop in; to visit; to lock a door; (of a shop) to close; to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family
  • 热门rè mén 4–2 popular; hot; in vogue
  • 敲门qiāo mén 1–2 to knock on a door
  • 门诊mén zhěn 2–3 outpatient service
  • 入门rù mén 4–2 entrance door; to enter a door; introduction (to a subject); to learn the basics of a subject