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門

門

See also: 鬥 and 门

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

  1. Kangxi radical #169, ⾨ ‎(“gate”).

Derived characters

  • Index:Chinese radical/門
  • 𪘶

References

  • KangXi: page 1329, character 53
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41208
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1833, character 38
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4281, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9580

Chinese

trad. 門
simp. 门
alt. forms 𨳇
閅

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 門
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (門) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 門
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 魂 (55)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 莫奔切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /muən/
Pan
Wuyun		 /muon/
Shao
Rongfen		 /muən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mwən/
Li
Rong		 /muən/
Wang
Li		 /muən/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /muən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mén
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 門
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mén
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mwon ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mˤə[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
Phonetic
component		 門
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 門
Old
Chinese		 /*mɯːn/

Definitions

門

  1. gate; door; entrance; opening
  2. valve; switch
  3. way of doing something, knack
    門路 / 门路  ―  ménlù  ―  way of doing something
  4. family
  5. (religious) sect; school of thought
    佛門 / 佛门  ―  fómén  ―  Buddhism
  6. class; category
  7. Classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology and languages.  ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
  8. Classifier for large guns.
  9. A surname​.
  10. combined with keywords to form the names of scandals (from English -gate)

Compounds

Japanese

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

Kanji

門

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

  • 門戸 (もんこ) ‎(monko, “family”)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
門
もん
Grade: 2
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

門 ‎(hiragana もん, romaji mon)

  1. gate

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
門
かど
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

門 ‎(hiragana かど, romaji kado)

  1. gate

References

  1. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

門 • ‎(mun)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 문()
  • Name (hangeul): 문 (revised: mun, McCune-Reischauer: mun, Yale: mwun)
  1. gate, door, gateway, portal

Vietnamese

Han character

門 (môn, món, mon, cao)

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Zhuang

Pronoun

門 ‎(simplified Sawndip form 门)

  1. Traditional Sawndip form of mwngz.

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