门
gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇[shan4]); 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)
3 strokes
Dict coverage rank #73 U+95E8
How 门 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
An open doorway or gate
components: 丶 丨
? unknown part
How to remember it
gate · Heisig RSH #1260
— as a component also called: gate
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 门 as their sound component
These characters all use 门 (mén) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 门 sound component | mén | gate, door, entrance, opening |
| 问 | wèn | to ask about, to inquire after |
| 闻 | wén | news; to hear, to smell; to make known |
| 闷 | mēn | gloomy, depressed, melancholy |
| 们 | men | plural marker for pronouns and some nouns |
| 闽 | mǐn | Fujian province; a river; a tribe |
| 闰 | rùn | intercalary; extra, surplus |
| 蔺 | lìn | hay, straw; surname |
| 闵 | mǐn | to mourn, to grieve; to incite, to urge on |
| 扪 | mén | to stoke, to pat; to grope, to feel |
| 訚 | yín | respectful; to speak gently |
| 钔 | mén | mendelevium |
Words containing 门
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 天门市 | Tiān mén shì | Tianmen sub-prefecture level city in Hubei |
| 海门区 | Hǎi mén Qū | Haimen, a district of Nantong City 南通市[Nan2 tong1 Shi4], Jiangsu |
| 大门 | Dà mén | the Doors, US rock band |
| 大门 | dà mén | entrance; door; gate; large and influential family |
| 门子 | mén zi | door; doorman (old); hanger-on of an aristocrat; social influence; pull; classifier for re… |
| 金门县 | Jīn mén xiàn | Kinmen County, Taiwan (the Kinmen or Quemoy islands off the Fujian coast); Jinmen county i… |
| 门人 | mén rén | disciple; follower; hanger-on (at an aristocrat's home) |
| 国门 | guó mén | (archaic) capital's gate; country's border |
| 山门 | shān mén | monastery main gate (Buddhism); monastery |
| 西门子 | Xī mén zǐ | Siemens (company name) |
| 水门 | shuǐ mén | water valve; sluice gate; (aviation) water salute |
| 门市 | mén shì | retail sales; retail outlet; store |
| 学门 | xué mén | (Tw) field of knowledge; academic discipline |
| 三门县 | Sān mén Xiàn | Sanmen, a county in Taizhou City 台州市[Tai1 zhou1 Shi4], Zhejiang |
| 门生 | mén shēng | disciple; student (of a famous master) |
| 天安门 | Tiān ān mén | Tiananmen Gate, entrance of the Imperial City in Beijing |
| 门地 | mén dì | variant of 門第|门第[men2 di4] |
| 天门 | Tiān mén | Tianmen sub-prefecture level city in Hubei |
| 家门 | jiā mén | house door; family clan |
| 海门 | Hǎi mén | see 海門區|海门区[Hai3 men2 Qu1] |