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doorway / gate / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
entrance / door / gate / large and influential family
HSK 2
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  *門* | 門* | *門
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
to push open (a gate etc) / to push away / to reject / to decline
HSK 3
Tiananmen Gate, entrance of the Imperial City in Beijing
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  *閘* | 閘* | *閘
sluice; sluice gate / to dam up water / (coll.) brake / (coll.) electric switch
HSK 7-9
power switch / gas valve / to open the city (or frontier) gate / to open and close / to switch on and off
HSK 6
area outside a city gate
to stand as a goalkeeper / to keep guard on a gate
(electronics) inverter; NOT gate
water valve; sluice gate / (aviation) water salute
lit. devil's gate, crooked path (idiom); corrupt practices / crooked methods / dishonesty
Xizhimen neighborhood of Beijing / the main northwest gate of Beijing
back door; back gate / (fig.) back-door influence; under-the-table dealings / anus / (computing) backdoor
see 龍門縣|龙门县 / see 龍門石窟|龙门石窟 / see 龍門山|龙门山 / Dragon Gate, mythical gate at the crest of a waterfall over which a carp may leap to become a dragon; (fig.) gateway to success or greatness
to knock at the gate (old) / to make an approach / to invade / to attack the goal (sports)
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  *闠* | 闠* | *闠
gate of market
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  *觀* | 觀* | *觀
Taoist monastery / palace gate watchtower / platform
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  *轅* | 轅* | *轅
shaft of a cart or carriage / (bound form) entrance gate of a military camp or yamen; (fig.) government office
main entrance / main gate / portal
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
(of a gate, vehicle etc) to lock; to engage the lock
the Yi gate of 大梁, capital of Wei during Warring states
gate / door with grating / turnstile / logical gate (electronics)
semicircular defensive enclosure around city gates / crescent-shaped barbican
city gate tower
departure gate (aviation)
"Phone Gate", corruption scandal unearthed through telephone records
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
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
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)
city gate
lower sluice gate / outflow sluice
(archaic) capital's gate / country's border
Bill Gates (1955-), co-founder of Microsoft
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
Chongwenmen gate in Beijing
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *墩* | 墩* | *墩
block / gate pillar / pier / classifier for clusters of plants / classifier for rounds in a card game: trick / (archaic) watchtower
OR gate (electronics)
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
logic gate
gate
watchtower on either side of a city gate / (literary) city / imperial palace
overgrown gate, wicker windows (idiom); poor person's house / humble home
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  *閶* | 閶* | *閶
gate of heaven / gate of palace
to intrude / to charge in / to gate-crash
to partially obscure / (of a door, gate or window) slightly open; ajar; not fully shut; unlocked / (of a jacket or shirt) unbuttoned
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  *閈* | 閈* | *閈
gate of a village
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  *闈* | 闈* | *闈
door to women's room / gate to palace
defensive gate
the gates of hell
boarding gate
monastery main gate (Buddhism) / monastery
gate to enlightment (Buddhism) / Buddhism / way / method / (old) south gate of a palace
a screen wall across the gate of a house (for privacy)
Yumen Pass, or Jade Gate, western frontier post on the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty, west of Dunhuang, in Gansu
guard at gate / sentry
person who crashes through a barrier / gate-crasher
boarding gate
Gates (name)
corner gate
sluice gate
fortified gate
doorway / gate / entrance
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  *闉* | 闉* | *闉
inner gates
sluice / water gate / waterlocks / floodgate / lock / dam
AND gate (electronics)
gate or door facing the street
Yongdingmen, front gate of the outer section of Beijing's old city wall, torn down in the 1950s and reconstructed in 2005
Gates (name)
(traditional Chinese architecture) spirit wall – a screen wall placed inside or outside a main gate, shielding the courtyard from view
boarding gate (at airport) / aircraft boarding bridge
gate valve; sluice valve
overgrown gate, wicker windows (idiom); poor person's house / humble home
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  *閭* | 閭* | *閭
gate of a village / village
to drive (vehicle) / to drive out / to chase away / to herd (people towards a gate)
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  *閻* | 閻* | *閻
(literary) the gate of a lane
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
rotor sluice gate
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  *闍* | 闍* | *闍
defensive platform over gate / barbican
sluice-gate / flood discharge valve
open sluice gate / (toll) station / boarding gate (airport etc) / (fig.) gateway (access point)
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  *閎* | 閎* | *閎
big / gate
enceinte of a city gate / barbican entrance to a city
grid (in vacuum tubes) / gate (terminal of a field-effect transistor)


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