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HSK
ticket (for theater, cinema etc)
HSK 1
doorway / gate / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
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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
entrance / door / gate / large and influential family
HSK 2
to go out / to leave home / to go on a journey / away from home / (of a woman) to get married
HSK 2
department / branch / section / division / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
specialist / specialized / customized
HSK 3
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
outpatient service
HSK 5
popular; hot; in vogue
HSK 5
entrance door / to enter a door / to learn the basics of a subject; introduction (to a subject); (attributive) entry-level
HSK 5
to knock on a door
HSK 5
doorstep / sill / threshold / fig. knack or trick (esp. scheme to get sth cheaper)
HSK 7-9
doorbell
HSK 7-9
a neglected branch (of arts, science, sports etc) / fig. a complete unknown who wins a competition
HSK 7-9
valve (mechanical)
HSK 7-9
myriad / all kinds of / all sorts of
HSK 7-9
a trick / an ingenious method / know-how / the knack (of doing sth)
HSK 7-9
way of doing sth / the right social connection
HSK 7-9
the families are well-matched in terms of social status (idiom) / (of a prospective marriage partner) an appropriate match
HSK 7-9
(lit.) to enter through the back door / (fig.) to pull strings; to use connections / (fig.) (slang) to have anal sex
HSK 7-9
to call on sb / to drop in / to visit sb's home
HSK 7-9
an upset (esp. in sports) / unexpected turn of events / to pull off a coup / a breakthrough
HSK 7-9
security door
HSK 7-9
Macao or Macau, special administrative region (SAR) of the PRC (abbr. to )
Yemen
Brahmanism / Hinduism
Solomon Islands in southwest Pacific
two-character surname Ximen
to open a door (lit. and fig.) / to open for business
electric switch
retail sales / retail outlet; store
the Doors, US rock band
(soccer, handball etc) to kick or shoot the ball towards the goal
Monroe (name) / James Monroe (1758-1831), fifth US president
Tuen Mun district of New Territories, Hong Kong
back door; back gate / (fig.) back-door influence; under-the-table dealings / anus / (computing) backdoor
Kinmen or Quemoy islands off the Fujian coast, administered by Taiwan / Jinmen county in Quanzhou 泉州, Fujian, PRC
Shimen or Shihmen township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
anus
Ximending (neighborhood in Wanhua district, Taipei)
wealthy and influential family
door plate / house number
to close the door (lit. and fig.)
car door / door of bus, railway carriage etc
door of a room
outside the door
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
Siemens (company name)
Kinmen or Quemoy islands off the Fujian coast, administered by Taiwan
house door / family clan
to enter a door / to go in / to learn the basics of a subject / to join one's husband's household upon marriage
forehead (dialect)
disciple
door / strategic gateway / portal / faction / sect / family status / family / web portal / (old) brothel
to introduce oneself / originally a theatrical device in which a character explains his own role
to close a door / to lock a door / (of a shop etc) to close (for the night, or permanently)
screen door
famous family / prestigious house
restrictions on entry and exiting / control over access
in front of the door
Kinmen County, Taiwan (the Kinmen or Quemoy islands off the Fujian coast) / Jinmen county in Quanzhou 泉州, Fujian
ancient Chinese divination tradition (still in use today)
Panmunjeom, the Joint Security Area in the Korean demilitarized zone
dissenting religious sect (idiom); heretical school of opinion / dissident group
Solomon (name)
Tiananmen Gate, entrance of the Imperial City in Beijing
door knob / door handle / also pr. [men2 ba4]
sect / school (group of followers of a particular doctrine)
sluice gate
gate to enlightment (Buddhism) / Buddhism / way / method / (old) south gate of a palace
Longmen county in Huizhou 惠州, Guangdong / mythical Dragon gate where a carp can transform into a dragon
shutter
forehead
to exterminate an entire family
to keep up appearances / to put up a front
accelerator (pedal) / gas pedal / throttle
Carmen (name) / Carmen, 1875 opera by Georges Bizet 比才 based on novel by Prosper Mérimée 梅里美
poor and humble family / my family (humble)
to stand as a goalkeeper / to keep guard on a gate
goalkeeper
pylorus (anatomy)
door god
Xiamen, sub-provincial city in Fujian Province 福建省
to seek help from social connections
to come to sb's door / to call on sb
Sanmen county in Taizhou 台州, Zhejiang
Watergate scandal
the gates of hell
arched door
to close a door
monk (Sanskrit: Sramana, originally refers to north India) / Buddhist monk
Buddhism
lit. to open the door and see the mountain; fig. to get right to the point (idiom)
city gate
Tianmen sub-prefecture level city in Hubei

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