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specialty / specialized field / main field of study (at university) / major / CL: 門|门, 個|个 / professional
HSK 3
knowledge / CL: 門|门 / intellectual
HSK 1
foreign language / CL: 門|门
HSK 1
specialized; dedicated (to a particular field or purpose) / specially; specifically (for a particular purpose) / (of institutions, personnel etc) designated or assigned for a specific task; special
HSK 3
history / CL: 門|门,
HSK 4
to drop in / to visit / to lock a door / (of a shop) to close / to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *门* | 门* | *门
gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:) / valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure / way to do sth; knack; method; approach / family; household; lineage / (bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic) / (bound form) class; category; division; phylum / classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc / (suffix) -gate (scandal)
HSK 1
to go out / to leave home / to go on a journey / away from home / (of a woman) to get married
HSK 2
language / CL: 門|门, 種|种
HSK 2
doorway / gate / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
ticket (for theater, cinema etc)
HSK 1
learning; knowledge; scholarship / a body of specialized knowledge (CL:門|门); (fig.) any activity that demands expertise, skill or experience (e.g. gathering forensic evidence, selecting clothing, managing relationships)
HSK 4
course; academic program / CL: , 節|节, 門|门
HSK 3
technology; technique; skill / CL: 門|门, 種|种, 項|项
HSK 3
science / scientific knowledge / scientific / rational / CL: 門|门, 個|个, 種|种
HSK 2
homework / assignment / task / classwork / lesson / study / CL: 門|门
HSK 3
entrance door / to enter a door / to learn the basics of a subject; introduction (to a subject); (attributive) entry-level
HSK 5
entrance / door / gate / large and influential family
HSK 2
popular; hot; in vogue
HSK 5
colloquial speech / spoken language / vernacular language / slander / gossip / CL: 門|门
HSK 4
department / branch / section / division / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
sect leader (often in wuxia 武俠|武侠 fiction)
to travel far away from home
live-in son-in-law; husband living with the wife's family
gantry
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *课* | 课* | *课
subject / course / CL: 門|门 / class / lesson / CL: , 節|节 / to levy / tax / form of divination
HSK 1
outpatient service
HSK 5
Shanzhou, a district of Sanmenxia City 三門峽市|三门峡市, Henan
to call on sb / to drop in / to visit sb's home
HSK 7-9
dooring (accident caused by opening a vehicle door into traffic)
myriad / all kinds of / all sorts of
HSK 7-9
Tiananmen Gate, entrance of the Imperial City in Beijing
strange / unusual / evil ways / dishonest practices
disciple / follower / hanger-on (at an aristocrat's home)
a neglected branch (of arts, science, sports etc) / fig. a complete unknown who wins a competition
HSK 7-9
Monba ethnic group
to knock on a door
HSK 5
entrance hall / vestibule
way of doing sth / the right social connection
HSK 7-9
(fig.) to leave school; to graduate; to enter the world beyond school
doorstep / sill / threshold / fig. knack or trick (esp. scheme to get sth cheaper)
HSK 7-9
Shimen, a county in Changde City 常德市, Hunan
outpatient department
a relative (i.e. family relation) / CL: 門|门, 個|个,
HSK 7-9
door frame
glottis
area above the lintel of a doorway
Jingshan, a county-level city in Jingmen City 荊門市|荆门市, Hubei
(sports) (coll.) sweeper (in a running event)
Xiamen University
house call fee / callout fee
to be away from home; to live away from one's family
(wuxia) sect leader; (fig.) person in charge; head; leader; proprietor
specialist / specialized staff
Haimen, a district of Nantong City 南通市, Jiangsu
Jincheng (common place name) / Chincheng town in Kinmen County 金門縣|金门县 (Kinmen or Quemoy islands), Taiwan
a trick / an ingenious method / know-how / the knack (of doing sth)
HSK 7-9
(archaic) capital's gate / country's border
Tiananmen Square
Watergate scandal
door number / (Tw) mobile phone number
goalkeeper
to visit sb at home
keycard; electronic entrance card
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *门* | 门* | *门
surname Men
web portal
family with a literary reputation (idiom); literary family
Lingbao, county-level city in Sanmenxia 三門峽市|三门峡市, Henan
the families are well-matched in terms of social status (idiom) / (of a prospective marriage partner) an appropriate match
HSK 7-9
special administrative region (SAR), of which there are two in the PRC: Hong Kong 香港 and Macau 澳門|澳门 / refers to many different areas during late Qing, foreign occupation, warlord period and Nationalist government / refers to special zones in North Korea and Indonesia
gatekeeper
to slam the door
Eva Mendes, American actress
Buddhism
to close a door / to lock a door / (of a shop etc) to close (for the night or permanently)
introductory course / primer
personnel office
dissenting religious sect (idiom); heretical school of opinion / dissident group
military branch
lit. to open the door and see the mountain; fig. to get right to the point (idiom)
valve (mechanical)
HSK 7-9
big gun / cannon / artillery / one who talks big / CL: 門|门,
Sanmenxia, prefecture-level city in Henan Province 河南省
city gate
Brahmin
(photography) shutter
to keep goal / on duty as gatekeeper
special train / abbr. for 專門列車|专门列车
(lit.) to enter through the back door / (fig.) to pull strings; to use connections / (fig.) (slang) to have anal sex
HSK 7-9
the one and only way / the only proper course to take
marriage / CL: 門|门
doormat
Epistle of St Paul to Philemon
Helicobacter pylori (stomach bacterium)
Hong Kong 香港, Macao 澳門|澳门 and Taiwan 臺灣|台湾
door of a room

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