Opening interactive tools…
Your dictionary will be ready shortly.
字HANZI DESK

门

Traditional: 門

mén

HSK 3.0 · 1HSK 2.0 · 2

Yue Tan · University of Caen; © 2009 Yue Tan. MP3 preparation: Hugo Lopez / audio-cmn · CC BY-SA 3.0 US

mén · mun4 (Jyutping)

  1. gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇[shan4])
  2. valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure
  3. way to do sth; knack; method; approach
  4. family; household; lineage
  5. (bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic)
  6. (bound form) class; category; division; phylum
  7. classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc
  8. (suffix) -gate (scandal)
  9. surname Men

Definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · snapshot 2026-10-09. Display: consolidated readings, linked characters and marked pinyin. Original data

Character breakdown

门

Meaning
gate, door, entrance, opening
Radical
门
Strokes
3
Components
⿰⿱丶丨?
Cangjie
ILS
Four-corner
3700

Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.

Example sentences