|  |  | to go out  / to leave home  / to go on a journey  / away from home  / (of a woman) to get married  | HSK 2 | 
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|  |  | entrance  / door  / gate  / large and influential family  | HSK 2 | 
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|  |  | gate  /  door  / CL: 扇 /  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 | 
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|  |  | entrance door  / to enter a door  / to learn the basics of a subject; introduction (to a subject); (attributive) entry-level  | HSK 5 | 
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|  |  | 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 | 
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|  |  | popular; hot; in vogue  | HSK 5 | 
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|  |  | department  /  branch  /  section  /  division  / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 | 
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|  |  | 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 | 
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|  |  | to call on sb  / to drop in  / to visit sb's home  | HSK 7-9 | 
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|  |  | to knock on a door  | HSK 5 | 
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|  |  | Tiananmen Gate, entrance of the Imperial City in Beijing  |  | 
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|  |  | to burst or force open a door  / to excommunicate sb (from the Roman Catholic Church)  / to score a goal (in football, hockey etc)  |  | 
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|  |  | Mormon (religion)  |  | 
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|  |  | Drammen (city in Buskerud, Norway)  |  | 
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|  |  | a neglected branch (of arts, science, sports etc)  / fig. a complete unknown who wins a competition  | HSK 7-9 | 
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|  |  | myriad  / all kinds of  / all sorts of  | HSK 7-9 | 
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|  |  | Xuanwumen, Beijing  |  | 
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|  |  | airtight door  |  | 
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|  |  | (lit.) to enter through the back door  / (fig.) to pull strings; to use connections  / (fig.) (slang) to have anal sex  | HSK 7-9 | 
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|  |  | voice  / windpipe  |  | 
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|  |  | personnel office  |  | 
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|  |  | side door  |  | 
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|  |  | (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  |  | 
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|  |  | lit. General Iron is guarding the door (idiom)  / fig. the door is padlocked — nobody inside  |  | 
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|  |  | an upset (esp. in sports)  / unexpected turn of events  / to pull off a coup  / a breakthrough  | HSK 7-9 | 
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|  |  | accelerator (pedal)  / gas pedal  / throttle  |  | 
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|  |  | to stand as a goalkeeper  / to keep guard on a gate  |  | 
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|  |  | to introduce oneself  / originally a theatrical device in which a character explains his own role  |  | 
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|  |  | the Doors, US rock band  |  | 
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|  |  | door of a room  |  | 
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|  |  | Buddhism  |  | 
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|  |  | administrative department  / administration  / executive (government branch)  |  | 
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|  |  | to enter a door  / to go in  / to learn the basics of a subject  / to join one's husband's household upon marriage  |  | 
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|  |  | a trick  / an ingenious method  / know-how  / the knack (of doing sth)  | HSK 7-9 | 
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|  |  | 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)  |  | 
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|  |  | water valve; sluice gate  / (aviation) water salute  |  | 
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|  |  | (sports) (cricket) wicket (set of stumps and bails)  |  | 
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|  |  | sliding door  |  | 
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|  |  | Tianmen sub-prefecture level city in Hubei  |  | 
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|  |  | fontanel (gap between the bones of an infant's skull)  |  | 
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|  |  | to keep goal  / on duty as gatekeeper  |  | 
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|  |  | Xizhimen neighborhood of Beijing  / the main northwest gate of Beijing  |  | 
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|  |  | to accelerate  / to step on the gas  |  | 
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|  |  | the Bocca Tigris, a narrow strait in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong  /  Humen Town 虎門鎮|虎门镇 |  | 
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|  |  | yamen, government office in dynastic China  |  | 
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|  |  | (zoology) phylum Porifera (sponges)  |  | 
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|  |  | security door  | HSK 7-9 | 
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|  |  | famous family  / prestigious house  |  | 
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|  |  | Carmen (name)  /  Carmen, 1875 opera by Georges Bizet 比才  based on novel by Prosper Mérimée 梅里美 |  | 
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|  |  | back door; back gate  / (fig.) back-door influence; under-the-table dealings  / anus  / (computing) backdoor  |  | 
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|  |  | Deshengmen (Beijing)  |  | 
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|  |  | arched door  |  | 
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|  |  | valve (mechanical)  | HSK 7-9 | 
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|  |  | 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  |  | 
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|  |  | lit. to invite the devil to one's house (idiom)  / fig. to introduce a potential source of trouble  |  | 
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|  |  | wealthy and influential family  |  | 
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|  |  | triumphal arch  |  | 
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|  |  | revolving door  |  | 
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|  |  | to knock on a door  |  | 
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|  |  | shutter  |  | 
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|  |  | (soccer, handball etc) to kick or shoot the ball towards the goal  |  | 
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|  |  | main entrance  / main gate  / portal  |  | 
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|  |  | the Yi gate of 大梁 , capital of Wei 魏  during Warring states  |  | 
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|  |  | the building or room opposite  |  | 
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|  |  | to lock the door  |  | 
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|  |  | Yemen (Tw)  |  | 
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|  |  | noble house  |  | 
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|  |  | gate  / door with grating  / turnstile  / logical gate (electronics)  |  | 
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|  |  | "shikumen" style architecture: traditional (ca. 19th century) residences with courtyards, once common in Shanghai  |  | 
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|  |  | to open the throttle  / to accelerate  / to let her rip  |  | 
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|  |  | to open a door (lit. and fig.)  / to open for business  |  | 
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|  |  | (Tw) field of knowledge  / academic discipline  |  | 
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|  |  | poor and humble family  / my family (humble)  |  | 
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|  |  | Guanganmen in Xuanwu 宣武區|宣武区  district of southwest Beijing  |  | 
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|  |  | (literary) vaginal opening  / vulva  |  | 
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|  |  | two-character surname Ximen  |  | 
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|  |  | car door  / door of bus, railway carriage etc  |  | 
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|  |  | surname Men  |  | 
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|  |  | to open the back door  / fig. under the counter  / to do a secret or dishonest deal  / to let sth in by the back door  |  | 
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|  |  | fontanel (gap between the bones of an infant's skull)  |  | 
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|  |  | Solomon (name)  |  | 
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|  |  | (dialect) stingy  |  | 
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|  |  | the whole family  |  | 
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|  |  | Achilles' heel  / chink in the armor  |  | 
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|  |  | double door  |  | 
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|  |  | side door  / wicket door  |  | 
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|  |  | customs section  |  | 
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|  |  | "Phone Gate", corruption scandal unearthed through telephone records  |  | 
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|  |  | first return of bride to her parental home  |  | 
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|  |  | family of officials  / family with connections to the bureaucracy (i.e. the middle classes in imperial China)  |  | 
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|  |  | to come to sb's door  / to call on sb  |  | 
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|  |  | to exterminate an entire family  |  | 
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|  |  | strange  / unusual  / evil ways  / dishonest practices  |  | 
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|  |  | Fuchengmen neighborhood of Beijing  |  | 
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|  |  | turnstile  |  | 
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|  |  | city gate  |  | 
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