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Mandarin · pinyin mén#

gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (Classifier: 扇 shàn)
valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure
way to do sth; knack; method; approach
family; household; lineage
(bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic)
(bound form) class; category; division; phylum
classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc
(suffix) -gate (scandal)

Mandarin · pinyin Mén#

surname Men

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門: mén · gate, door, entrance, opening; Kangxi radical 169
门: mén · gate, door, entrance, opening

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2 · men2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

mun4

Cantonese word readings for 門. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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gate; door; entrance; opening; portal (Classifier: 扇 m mn; 道 m c; 度 c; 條／条 c; 隻／只 c; 片 mn)
valve; switch
way of doing something; knack
family
school; sect; school of thought; tradition
class; category
(taxonomy) phylum; division
(logic, electronics) logic gate
Classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology, and languages. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
Classifier for livelihoods, trades, skills, businesses, etc.
Classifier for thoughts, ideas, or emotions, particularly those forming a system or complex.
Classifier for marriage, romantic, or family relations.
Classifier for large guns.
-gate (a suffix combined with keywords to form the names of scandals)
(anatomy) hilum of an organ
a surname

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