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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)
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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
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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
popular; hot; in vogue
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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
to knock on a door
HSK 5
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
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a trick / an ingenious method / know-how / the knack (of doing sth)
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
two-character surname Ximen
to open a door (lit. and fig.) / to open for business
electric switch
the Doors, US rock band
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
wealthy and influential family
to close the door (lit. and fig.)
car door / door of bus, railway carriage etc
door of a room
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
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
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
Solomon (name)
Tiananmen Gate, entrance of the Imperial City in Beijing
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
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
pylorus (anatomy)
to come to sb's door / to call on sb
arched door
to close a door
monk (Sanskrit: Sramana, originally refers to north India) / Buddhist monk
Buddhism
city gate
Tianmen sub-prefecture level city in Hubei
voice / windpipe
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)
to lock the door
yamen, government office in dynastic China
the whole family
to keep goal / on duty as gatekeeper
(archaic) capital's gate / country's border
side door
(dialect) stingy
strange / unusual / evil ways / dishonest practices
Doumen District of Zhuhai City 珠海市, Guangdong
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
the one and only way / the only proper course to take
two simultaneous happy events in the family
to visit sb at home
to knock on a door
goalmouth (in soccer)
side door
noble house
side door / doing things by the side door (i.e. dishonestly)
lit. fill the door / fill the house (at a wedding or auspicious occasion)
(to go to) distant parts / faraway / a distant relative
to close the door (when going through it)
(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
to marry and live with the bride's family (inverting traditional Chinese expectations)
revolving door
Confucius' school (i.e. his direct disciples)
inner side of the wrist, where the pulse is felt
to break into a home when no one is there (to steal)
amen (loanword)
valve
to arrive home / facing one's home / home-coming / (soccer) facing the goalmouth
corner gate
Chongwenmen gate in Beijing
to answer the door
to break in / to force a door
to take refuge in religious life

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