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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
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
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
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
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
valve (mechanical)
HSK 7-9
a neglected branch (of arts, science, sports etc) / fig. a complete unknown who wins a competition
HSK 7-9
to call on sb / to drop in / to visit sb's home
HSK 7-9
a trick / an ingenious method / know-how / the knack (of doing sth)
HSK 7-9
myriad / all kinds of / all sorts of
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
security door
HSK 7-9
an upset (esp. in sports) / unexpected turn of events / to pull off a coup / a breakthrough
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *门* | 门* | *门
surname Men
yamen, government office in dynastic China
Tianmen sub-prefecture level city in Hubei
Rashomon, Japanese novel and movie / (fig.) situation where conflicting interpretations of the same event obscure the truth / unsolvable case
(soccer, handball etc) to kick or shoot the ball towards the goal
Yemen
back door; back gate / (fig.) back-door influence; under-the-table dealings / anus / (computing) backdoor
car door / door of bus, railway carriage etc
side door / wicket door
Shimen or Shihmen township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
Macao or Macau, special administrative region (SAR) of the PRC (abbr. to )
to open a door (lit. and fig.) / to open for business
to pass through a doorway / (of a woman) to marry / orchestral music interlude in an opera
valve (esp. tire valve) / accelerator (obsolete term for 油門|油门) / stigma (zool.) / spiracle
city gate
pylorus (anatomy)
Longmen county in Huizhou 惠州, Guangdong / mythical Dragon gate where a carp can transform into a dragon
to close a door / to lock a door / (of a shop etc) to close (for the night or permanently)
Qianmen subway station on Beijing Subway Line 2
front door / main entrance / honest and upright approach (as opposed to 後門|后门, back-door or under the counter)
the Doors, US rock band
wealthy and influential family
to exterminate an entire family
to leave the door unlocked for sb
cardia (anatomy)
fontanel (gap between the bones of an infant's skull)
Doumen District of Zhuhai City 珠海市, Guangdong
(dialect) stingy
Yumen, county-level city in Jiuquan 酒泉, Gansu
(literary) vaginal opening / vulva
Qimen, a county in Huangshan 黃山|黄山, Anhui
main entrance / main gate / portal
to close a door
Dongzhimen neighborhood of Beijing
Buddhism
to break into a home when no one is there (to steal)
arched door
strange / unusual / evil ways / dishonest practices
gate to enlightment (Buddhism) / Buddhism / way / method / (old) south gate of a palace
lit. fill the door / fill the house (at a wedding or auspicious occasion)
accelerator (pedal) / gas pedal / throttle
Xuanwumen, Beijing
Sanmen county in Taizhou 台州, Zhejiang
sluice gate
amen (loanword)
to stand as a goalkeeper / to keep guard on a gate
side door / doing things by the side door (i.e. dishonestly)
two simultaneous happy events in the family
anus
Kinmen or Quemoy islands off the Fujian coast, administered by Taiwan / Jinmen county in Quanzhou 泉州, Fujian, PRC
electric switch
famous family / prestigious house
goalmouth (in soccer)
Brahmin
Xizhimen neighborhood of Beijing / the main northwest gate of Beijing
the whole family
Carmen (name) / Carmen, 1875 opera by Georges Bizet 比才 based on novel by Prosper Mérimée 梅里美
to keep goal / on duty as gatekeeper
Deshengmen (Beijing)
(archaic) capital's gate / country's border
triumphal arch
Tuen Mun district of New Territories, Hong Kong
Tiananmen Gate, entrance of the Imperial City in Beijing
corner gate
monk (Sanskrit: Sramana, originally refers to north India) / Buddhist monk
house door / family clan
side door / wicket door
side door
first return of bride to her parental home
the building or room opposite
to lock the door
poor and humble family / my family (humble)
Fuchengmen neighborhood of Beijing
to marry and live with the bride's family (inverting traditional Chinese expectations)
(to go to) distant parts / faraway / a distant relative
to knock on a door
lit. woodcutter's family / humble background / poor family background
to arrive home / facing one's home / home-coming / (soccer) facing the goalmouth
monastery main gate (Buddhism) / monastery

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