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HSK
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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *門* | 門* | *門
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
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 call on sb / to drop in / to visit sb's home
HSK 7-9
to knock on a door
HSK 5
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)
Mormon (religion)
Drammen (city in Buskerud, Norway)
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
voice / windpipe
personnel office
side door
(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
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
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
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
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)
water valve; sluice gate / (aviation) water salute
(sports) (cricket) wicket (set of stumps and bails)
sliding door
Tianmen sub-prefecture level city in Hubei
fontanel (gap between the bones of an infant's skull)
to keep goal / on duty as gatekeeper
Xizhimen neighborhood of Beijing / the main northwest gate of Beijing
to accelerate / to step on the gas
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)
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
Deshengmen (Beijing)
arched door
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
lit. to invite the devil to one's house (idiom) / fig. to introduce a potential source of trouble
wealthy and influential family
triumphal arch
revolving door
to knock on a door
shutter
(soccer, handball etc) to kick or shoot the ball towards the goal
main entrance / main gate / portal
the Yi gate of 大梁, capital of Wei during Warring states
the building or room opposite
to lock the door
Yemen (Tw)
noble house
gate / door with grating / turnstile / logical gate (electronics)
"shikumen" style architecture: traditional (ca. 19th century) residences with courtyards, once common in Shanghai
to open the throttle / to accelerate / to let her rip
to open a door (lit. and fig.) / to open for business
(Tw) field of knowledge / academic discipline
poor and humble family / my family (humble)
Guanganmen in Xuanwu 宣武區|宣武区 district of southwest Beijing
(literary) vaginal opening / vulva
two-character surname Ximen
car door / door of bus, railway carriage etc
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *門* | 門* | *門
surname Men
to open the back door / fig. under the counter / to do a secret or dishonest deal / to let sth in by the back door
fontanel (gap between the bones of an infant's skull)
Solomon (name)
(dialect) stingy
the whole family
Achilles' heel / chink in the armor
double door
side door / wicket door
customs section
"Phone Gate", corruption scandal unearthed through telephone records
first return of bride to her parental home
family of officials / family with connections to the bureaucracy (i.e. the middle classes in imperial China)
to come to sb's door / to call on sb
to exterminate an entire family
strange / unusual / evil ways / dishonest practices
Fuchengmen neighborhood of Beijing
turnstile
city gate

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