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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *门* | 门* | *门
gate / door / CL: / gateway / doorway / CL: 個|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)
HSK 1
doorway / gate / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
entrance / door / gate / large and influential family
HSK 2
to push open (a gate etc) / to push away / to reject / to decline
HSK 3
power switch / gas valve / to open the city (or frontier) gate / to open and close / to switch on and off
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闸* | 闸* | *闸
sluice; sluice gate / to dam up water / (coll.) brake / (coll.) electric switch
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *观* | 观* | *观
Taoist monastery / palace gate watchtower / platform
Hangu Pass in modern day Henan Province, strategic pass forming the eastern gate of the Qin State during the Warring States Period (770-221 BC)
Bill Gates (1955-), co-founder of Microsoft
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *阎* | 阎* | *阎
(literary) the gate of a lane
back door; back gate / (fig.) back-door influence; under-the-table dealings / anus / (computing) backdoor
area outside a city gate
to intrude / to charge in / to gate-crash
city gate
Longmen county in Huizhou 惠州, Guangdong / mythical Dragon gate where a carp can transform into a dragon
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *墩* | 墩* | *墩
block / gate pillar / pier / classifier for clusters of plants / classifier for rounds in a card game: trick / (archaic) watchtower
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闳* | 闳* | *闳
big / gate
grid (in vacuum tubes) / gate (terminal of a field-effect transistor)
guard at gate / sentry
main entrance / main gate / portal
sluice / water gate / waterlocks / floodgate / lock / dam
city gate tower
gate to enlightment (Buddhism) / Buddhism / way / method / (old) south gate of a palace
open sluice gate / (toll) station / boarding gate (airport etc) / (fig.) gateway (access point)
sluice gate
to stand as a goalkeeper / to keep guard on a gate
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闱* | 闱* | *闱
door to women's room / gate to palace
gate valve; sluice valve
the gates of hell
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闾* | 闾* | *闾
gate of a village / village
Xizhimen neighborhood of Beijing / the main northwest gate of Beijing
Yumen Pass, or Jade Gate, western frontier post on the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty, west of Dunhuang, in Gansu
(archaic) capital's gate / country's border
Tiananmen Gate, entrance of the Imperial City in Beijing
corner gate
Gates (name)
gate
to drive (vehicle) / to drive out / to chase away / to herd (people towards a gate)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *阊* | 阊* | *阊
gate of heaven / gate of palace
monastery main gate (Buddhism) / monastery
to partially obscure / (of a door, gate or window) slightly open; ajar; not fully shut; unlocked / (of a jacket or shirt) unbuttoned
a fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat (idiom); the bystander will also suffer / fig. you can't escape responsibility for your actions / ask not for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *阇* | 阇* | *阇
defensive platform over gate / barbican
enceinte of a city gate / barbican entrance to a city
doorway / gate / entrance
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *阓* | 阓* | *阓
gate of market
lit. devil's gate, crooked path (idiom); corrupt practices / crooked methods / dishonesty
gate or door facing the street
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闬* | 闬* | *闬
gate of a village
overgrown gate, wicker windows (idiom); poor person's house / humble home
to forbid sb to go out / to confine to one location (e.g. student, soldier, prisoner, monk etc) / to ground (as disciplinary measure) / to gate / to curfew / restriction on movement / ban on visiting a place / out of bounds / off limits / caveat
"Phone Gate", corruption scandal unearthed through telephone records
Gates (name)
Xuanwu gate coup of June 626 in early Tang, in which Li Shimin 李世民 killed his brothers, seized the throne from his father as Emperor Taizong 唐太宗
watchtower on either side of a city gate / (literary) city / imperial palace
departure gate (aviation)
AND gate (electronics)
person who crashes through a barrier / gate-crasher
Chongwenmen gate in Beijing
defensive gate
OR gate (electronics)
South Gate to Heaven, the name a gate constructed on various mountains, most notably on Mount Tai 泰山 / (mythology) southern gate of the Heavenly Palace
rotor sluice gate
Li Jiancheng (589-626), eldest son of first Tang emperor Li Yuan 唐高祖李淵|唐高祖李渊, murdered by his brother 李世民 in the Xuanwu Gate coup 玄武門之變|玄武门之变 / Professor Li Jiancheng (1964-), geophysicist and specialist in satellite geodesy
boarding gate (at airport) / aircraft boarding bridge
overgrown gate, wicker windows (idiom); poor person's house / humble home
lower sluice gate / outflow sluice
lit. the gate of a noble house is like the sea (idiom) / fig. there is a wide gap between the nobility and the common people
(electronics) inverter; NOT gate
to knock at the gate (old) / to make an approach / to invade / to attack the goal (sports)
the Yi gate of 大梁, capital of Wei during Warring states
semicircular defensive enclosure around city gates / crescent-shaped barbican
gate / door with grating / turnstile / logical gate (electronics)
Yongdingmen, front gate of the outer section of Beijing's old city wall, torn down in the 1950s and reconstructed in 2005
sluice-gate / flood discharge valve
a screen wall across the gate of a house (for privacy)
boarding gate
boarding gate
fortified gate
inner gates


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