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門 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+0, 8 strokes, cangjie input 日弓 (AN), four-corner 77777, composition ⿰𠁣𠃛)

  1. Kangxi radical #169, ⾨.
  2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №438
trad. 門
simp. 门
alternative forms 𨳇閅／𮤫门

| | Old Chinese | | | -------------------------------- | -------------------- | | 蔄 | *roːs, *mruːns | | 闅 | *min, *mrɯn, *mɯn | | 閩 | *mrɯn, *mɯn | | 蕄 | *mɯːŋ, *mrɯːŋ | | 門 | *mɯːn | | 捫 | *mɯːn | | 悶 | *mɯːns | | 聞 | *mɯn, *mɯns | | 閿 | *mɯn | | 問 | *mɯns |

Pictogram (象形): a gate. Compare 戶 (OC *ɡʷaːʔ, “(one) door”), which is half of this character (𠁣).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-muːr (“mouth; lip; to hold in mouth; to chew; face; gills”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan མུར་བ (mur ba, “to masticate”), Tibetan མུར་འགྲམ (mur 'gram, “jawbone; cheek”), Mizo hmûi (“lips; upper lip”) and 吻 (OC *mɯnʔ, “lips; corner of the lips”).

“-gate”

Semantic loan from English -gate, which is a back-formation from Watergate. Also influenced by Japanese 羅生門.

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Note: meng5 - Jieyang, Chaoyang.

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Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 門
Reading # 1/1
ModernBeijing(Pinyin) mén
MiddleChinese ‹ mwon ›
OldChinese /*mˁə[r]/
English gate, door
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 門
Reading # 1/1
No. 8960
Phoneticcomponent 門
Rimegroup 文
Rimesubdivision 1
CorrespondingMC rime 門
OldChinese /*mɯːn/

門/门

門

  1. gate; door; entrance; opening; portal (Classifier: 扇 m mn; 道 m c; 度 c; 條／条 c; 隻／只 c; 片 mn)
  2. valve; switch
  3. way of doing something; knack
    門路／门路 ― ménlù ― way of doing something
  4. family
    陳門李小花之墓／陈门李小花之墓 ― Chén mén Lǐ Xiǎohuā zhī mù ― the grave of Li Xiaohua of Chen family (i.e. she was married to a man with surname Chen before death)
  5. school; sect; school of thought; tradition
    佛門／佛门 ― fómén ― Buddhism
    門生／门生 ― ménshēng ― disciple of a particular tradition
  6. class; category
  7. (taxonomy) phylum; division
  8. (logic, electronics) logic gate
  9. Classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology, and languages. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
  10. Classifier for livelihoods, trades, skills, businesses, etc.
    這門生意不好做。 [MSC, _trad._]
    这门生意不好做。 [MSC, _simp._]
    Zhè mén shēngyì bùhǎo zuò. [Pinyin]
    It's a tough business.
  11. Classifier for thoughts, ideas, or emotions, particularly those forming a system or complex.
    你這一門心思，誰猜得到？ [MSC, _trad._]
    你这一门心思，谁猜得到？ [MSC, _simp._]
    Nǐ zhè yī mén xīnsī, shéi cāidé dào? [Pinyin]
    Who could have guessed all that in your mind?
  12. Classifier for marriage, romantic, or family relations.
    說成一門親事／说成一门亲事 ― shuō chéng yī mén qīnshì ― to successfully make a match
  13. Classifier for large guns.
  14. -gate (a suffix combined with keywords to form the names of scandals)
    艷照門／艳照门 ― Yànzhàomén ― Edison Chen photo scandal (literally, “explicit photo scandal”)
  15. (anatomy) hilum of an organ
  16. a surname

Dialectal synonyms of 門 (“door”) [map]

Others:

Ryakuji for 門. Compare derived ryakuji for 間 and 開, and simplified Chinese 门 (mén).

門

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

Kanji in this term
門
もんGrade: 2
goon

From Middle Chinese 門 (MC mwon).

門(もん) • (mon)

  1. a gate
  2. (religion) a sect, school of thought
  3. (biology) a phylum, division
  4. Short for 門限 (mongen): a curfew

門(もん) • (-mon)

  1. counter for cannons or large guns

門(もん) • (mon)

  1. doorway, exit and entrance
  2. clan, family, kin
  3. teaching institution
  4. set of academic doctrines
  5. Used in Sanskrit transliterations
Kanji in this term
門
かどGrade: 2
kun'yomi

⟨kado1⟩ → */kadʷo/ → /kado/

From Old Japanese.

The final -do is cognate with 戸 (to, “door”). Compare 籠 (kago, “basket”), which is cognate with 籠 (ko).

門(かど) • (kado)

  1. a gate, portal
  2. an entrance, gateway, opening
  3. a clan, family, kin

門(かど) • (Kado)

  1. a surname
Kanji in this term
門
とGrade: 2
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 門 – see the following entry.
(This term, 門, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

From Middle Chinese 門 (MC mwon).

Historical readings

Wikisource

門 (eumhun 문 문 (mun mun))

  1. hanja form? of 문 (“gate; door; gateway; portal”)

Compounds

The final -do is cognate with 戸 (to1, “door”).

門 (kado1) (kana かど)

  1. a gate, portal
  2. an entrance, gateway, opening

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

門 (kadu) (kana かづ)

  1. (regional, Central Eastern Old Japanese) Same as カド甲 (kado1) above

門: Hán Nôm readings: môn, món, mon

  1. chữ Hán form of môn (“subject, discipline; door, entrance”).

門

  1. Sawndip form of mwngz