门

mén = m + (e)n2

surname Men

mén = m + (e)n2

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)

Mahatma Gandhi wants his revenge on the Chinese emperor! Like a spider he sits in the upper left corner of the encampment's kitchen, ready to strike with the trap door he installed in the floor.

门 character breakdown

The character 门 cannot be broken down into individual components.

Characters with 门 as component

shé = sh + e2

(used in transliteration from Sanskrit)

du̅ = du + Ø1

defensive platform over gate / barbican

hóng = hu + (e)ng2

big / gate

hóng = hu + (e)ng2

surname Hong

ya̅n = y + an1

to castrate / a castrate / neuter

kàn = k + an4

surname Kan

hé = h + e2

door / to close / whole

kǎi = k + ai3

to loosen / to open

yù = yu + Ø4

threshold

cha̅ng = ch + ang1

gate of heaven / gate of palace

yín = y + (e)n2

respectful / to speak gently

yín = y + (e)n2

surname Yin

shua̅n = shu + an1

bolt / latch / to bolt / to latch

ya̅n = y + an1

see 閼氏|阏氏[yan1 zhi1]

è = Ø + e4

to block / to restrain / to control

wéi = w + ei2

door to women's room / gate to palace

tà = t + a4

door of an inner room

xì = xi + Ø4

to argue / to quarrel

mén = m + (e)n2

lay hands on / to cover

què = qu + e4

(literary) to end / to stop / one of the stanzas (usually two) of a ci poem 詞|词[ci2] / classifier for songs or ci poems

Words with 门

house door / family clan

goalkeeper

to keep goal / on duty as gatekeeper

asparagus

emergency exit

,

lit. good deeds do not go beyond the door, evil deeds spread a thousand miles / a good deed goes unnoticed, but scandal spreads fast (idiom)

Brahmin

Brahmanism / Hinduism

Confucius' school (i.e. his direct disciples)

(Tw) field of knowledge / academic discipline

gatekeeper

Andingmen neighborhood of Beijing

Xuanwumen, Beijing

family of officials / family with connections to the bureaucracy (i.e. the middle classes in imperial China)

airtight door

poor and humble family / my family (humble)

Tianmen sub-prefecture level city in Hubei

the Yi gate of 大梁, capital of Wei 魏 during Warring states

ancient Chinese divination tradition (still in use today)

to rush out through a door (idiom)

Sentences with 门

fǎn

chu̅

le

nán

tia̅n

mén

táo

huí

hua̅

guǒ

sha̅n

qù

le

He escaped through the Southern Heavenly Gate and went back to the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit.