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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
ticket (for theater, cinema etc)
HSK 1
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
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
outpatient service
HSK 5
to knock on a door
HSK 5
valve (mechanical)
HSK 7-9
doorbell
HSK 7-9
doorstep / sill / threshold / fig. knack or trick (esp. scheme to get sth cheaper)
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
way of doing sth / the right social connection
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
the families are well-matched in terms of social status (idiom) / (of a prospective marriage partner) an appropriate match
HSK 7-9
an upset (esp. in sports) / unexpected turn of events / to pull off a coup / a breakthrough
HSK 7-9
family with a literary reputation (idiom); literary family
Deshengmen (Beijing)
lit. shut the door and beat the dog (idiom) / fig. seal off the enemy's avenue of retreat, then strike hard
the building or room opposite
Buddhism
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
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surname Men
to close down a business for good and put the best face on it (idiom)
Eva Mendes, American actress
to keep up appearances / to put up a front
asparagus
Yemen
Annelidan, the phylum of annelid worms
yamen, government office in dynastic China
strange / unusual / evil ways / dishonest practices
flamenco (loanword)
the Yi gate of 大梁, capital of Wei during Warring states
to keep up appearances / to put up a front
(fig.) denial of entry; flat refusal; cold rebuff
Tianmen sub-prefecture level city in Hubei
revolving door
Rashomon, Japanese novel and movie / (fig.) situation where conflicting interpretations of the same event obscure the truth / unsolvable case
cement (Shanghainese) (loanword)
permaculture (loanword)
Panmunjeom, the Joint Security Area in the Korean demilitarized zone
Helicobacter pylori (stomach bacterium)
(coll.) (emphasizing a rhetorical question) what / what kind / why on earth
He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night. / Rest with a clear conscience.
specialized agency
anus (rural coll.)
rich and powerful family
shop front / facade
(soccer, handball etc) to kick or shoot the ball towards the goal
restrictions on entry and exiting / control over access
a fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat (idiom); the bystander will also suffer / fig. you can't escape responsibility for your actions / ask not for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee
back door; back gate / (fig.) back-door influence; under-the-table dealings / anus / (computing) backdoor
car door / door of bus, railway carriage etc
Shimen or Shihmen township in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
Macao or Macau, special administrative region (SAR) of the PRC (abbr. to )
Siemens (company name)
gymnosperm (plants with seed contained in a cone)
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
sect / school (group of followers of a particular doctrine)
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
Salmonella
family status
Mt Longmen, the northwest boundary of the Sichuan basin, an active geological fault line / Mt Longmen in Shandong / Mt Longmen in Henan
entrance hall / vestibule
official gatekeeper / goalkeeper (soccer, hockey etc)
to close a door / to lock a door / (of a shop etc) to close (for the night or permanently)
the Doors, US rock band
to lock one's door and refuse to see sb
front tooth; incisor
to stand as a goalkeeper / to keep guard on a gate
wealthy and influential family
(idiom) to organize by categories; to classify
cardia (anatomy)
fontanel (gap between the bones of an infant's skull)
door god
to leave the door unlocked for sb
shop front / facade / CL: 間|间 / prestige
door lock
(literary) vaginal opening / vulva
guard at gate / sentry
main entrance / main gate / portal

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