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doorway / gate / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
to go out / to leave home / to go on a journey / away from home / (of a woman) to get married
HSK 2
entrance / door / gate / large and influential family
HSK 2
ticket (for theater, cinema etc)
HSK 1
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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
entrance door / to enter a door / to learn the basics of a subject; introduction (to a subject); (attributive) entry-level
HSK 5
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
popular; hot; in vogue
HSK 5
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
Mönchengladbach (city in Germany)
gantry
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
live-in son-in-law; husband living with the wife's family
outpatient service
HSK 5
keycard; electronic entrance card
to call on sb / to drop in / to visit sb's home
HSK 7-9
to be away from home; to live away from one's family
to knock on a door
HSK 5
Ximen Qing, a fictional character in the novels "Jin Ping Mei" 金瓶梅 and "Water Margin" 水滸傳|水浒传
Tiananmen Gate, entrance of the Imperial City in Beijing
Haimen, a district of Nantong City 南通市, Jiangsu
school gate
to burst or force open a door / to excommunicate sb (from the Roman Catholic Church) / to score a goal (in football, hockey etc)
offspring a famous family (idiom); good breeding / blue blood
while the connoisseur recognizes the artistry, the layman simply enjoys the show
Xaitongmoin, a county in Shigatse City 日喀則市|日喀则市, Tibet
Mormon (religion)
to specialize
doorstep / threshold
Drammen (city in Buskerud, Norway)
to slam the door
doorstep / sill / threshold / fig. knack or trick (esp. scheme to get sth cheaper)
HSK 7-9
(wuxia) sect leader; (fig.) person in charge; head; leader; proprietor
a neglected branch (of arts, science, sports etc) / fig. a complete unknown who wins a competition
HSK 7-9
Monba ethnic group
myriad / all kinds of / all sorts of
HSK 7-9
Xuanwumen, Beijing
door number / (Tw) mobile phone number
(fig.) to leave school; to graduate; to enter the world beyond school
dooring (accident caused by opening a vehicle door into traffic)
(sports) (coll.) sweeper (in a running event)
airtight door
(lit.) to enter through the back door / (fig.) to pull strings; to use connections / (fig.) (slang) to have anal sex
HSK 7-9
official gatekeeper / goalkeeper (soccer, hockey etc)
to lock one's door and refuse to see sb
specialist
Tiananmen Square
Siemens (company name)
voice / windpipe
personnel office
side door
one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom)
(TCM) the right kidney / (TCM) acupuncture point GV-4, midway between the kidneys / the region between the kidneys / the eyes / (fortune-telling) the temples / (fig.) most critical or vulnerable point
lit. General Iron is guarding the door (idiom) / fig. the door is padlocked — nobody inside
specialized agency
an upset (esp. in sports) / unexpected turn of events / to pull off a coup / a breakthrough
HSK 7-9
accelerator (pedal) / gas pedal / throttle
to stand as a goalkeeper / to keep guard on a gate
the master leads you to the door, the rest is up to you / you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink
to introduce oneself / originally a theatrical device in which a character explains his own role
the Doors, US rock band
door of a room
Buddhism
the families are well-matched in terms of social status (idiom) / (of a prospective marriage partner) an appropriate match
HSK 7-9
Watergate scandal
administrative department / administration / executive (government branch)
to enter a door / to go in / to learn the basics of a subject / to join one's husband's household upon marriage
to rush out through a door (idiom)
a trick / an ingenious method / know-how / the knack (of doing sth)
HSK 7-9
lit. (may the) five blessings descend upon this home (namely: longevity, wealth, health, virtue, and a natural death) / (an auspicious saying for the Lunar New Year)
Panmunjeom, the Joint Security Area in the Korean demilitarized zone
water valve; sluice gate / (aviation) water salute
way of doing sth / the right social connection
HSK 7-9
to close down a business for good and put the best face on it (idiom)
(sports) (cricket) wicket (set of stumps and bails)
sliding door
a learned person need not leave his home to know what's going on in the world (idiom)
gatekeeper
to set one's heart on sth (idiom)
Sanmen, a county in Taizhou City 台州市, Zhejiang
lit. devil's gate, crooked path (idiom); corrupt practices / crooked methods / dishonesty
outpatient department
Tianmen sub-prefecture level city in Hubei
fontanel (gap between the bones of an infant's skull)
to keep goal / on duty as gatekeeper
favorite pupil
Xizhimen neighborhood of Beijing / the main northwest gate of Beijing
to accelerate / to step on the gas
to keep up appearances / to put up a front
the Bocca Tigris, a narrow strait in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong / Humen Town 虎門鎮|虎门镇
yamen, government office in dynastic China
(zoology) phylum Porifera (sponges)
specialist / specialized staff

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