門
简 门 · 繁 門Meanings
- gate
- door Mandarin classifier: 扇
- gateway
- doorway Mandarin classifier: 个
- 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)
- clan
- gang
- key
- turning point
- a surname
- KangXi radical 169
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 門 Mén CC-CEDICT · Mandarinsurname Men
- 門 mén CC-CEDICT · Mandaringate; 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)
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: men2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 16 senses · 1 Cantonese reading
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
mun4
Cantonese word readings for 門. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- 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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