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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 / 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 / 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
Mönchengladbach (city in Germany)
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
outpatient service
HSK 5
to call on sb / to drop in / to visit sb's home
HSK 7-9
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
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 county, Tibetan: Bzhad mthong smon rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
to shut the door in sb's face
Mormon (religion)
to specialize
doorstep / threshold
Drammen (city in Buskerud, Norway)
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
myriad / all kinds of / all sorts of
HSK 7-9
Xuanwumen, Beijing
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 county in Taizhou 台州, 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
stoop / parvis / portico / patio / veranda
security door
HSK 7-9
famous family / prestigious house
Carmen (name) / Carmen, 1875 opera by Georges Bizet 比才 based on novel by Prosper Mérimée 梅里美
back door; back gate / (fig.) back-door influence; under-the-table dealings / anus / (computing) backdoor
(retail) store
to be refused entrance; to find the door closed
Brahmanism / Hinduism
goalkeeper
Deshengmen (Beijing)
arched door
doorsill
valve (mechanical)
HSK 7-9
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
to be unable to get into (a house, an organization, a field of study, a particular type of career etc)

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