門

See also: 门 and 鬥

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形): gate

Also Simplified from 鬥 in some characters, such as 鬪 → 闘.

Han character

門 (radical 169 門+0, 8 strokes, cangjie input 日弓 (AN), four-corner 7777₇)

Derived terms

• Index:Chinese radical/門

References

• KangXi: page 1329, character 53
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41208
• Dae Jaweon: page 1833, character 38
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4281, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9580

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Chinese

		-
trad.		門
simp.		门

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mén, yán (men², yan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄣˊ, ㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mun⁴
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): mûn
• Min Nan (POJ): mn̂g / bûn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: mén
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄣˊ
    • Wade-Giles: mên²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: men
    • IPA ^(key): /mən³⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yán
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˊ
    • Wade-Giles: yen²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yan
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mun⁴
    • Yale: mùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mun⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /muːn²¹/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mûn
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /mun²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mn̂g / bûn
    • Tâi-lô: mn̂g / bûn
    • IPA (Taipei): /mŋ̍²³/, /bun²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /mŋ̍¹³/, /bun¹³/
  • Note: mn̂g - vernacular, bûn - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (門, reconstructed)
Character (門), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 魂 Division: I			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 莫奔切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/muən/	/muən/	/muən/	/muon/	/mwən/	/muən/	/muən/

Old Chinese pronunciation (門, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
門								mén								‹ mwon ›								/*mˤə[r]/								gate, door
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
門					8960					門					文					1					門					/*mɯːn/

Definitions

門

1. gate, door, entrance, opening
2. valve, switch
3. way of doing something, knack

   门路 (門路)

4. family
5. (religious) sect, school of thought

   佛门 (佛門)

   摩门 (摩門)

6. class, category
7. classifier for large guns
8. classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology, languages
9. A surname​. Men

References

• (Mandarin) "門" (in Mandarin/English), MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT ). URL accessed on 2014-02-14.
• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Ryakuji for 門. Compare derived ryakuji for 間 and 開, and simplified 门.

Kanji

門

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: もん (mon)
• Kan’on: ぼん (bon)
• Kun: かど (kado)

Compounds

部門

専門 (せんもん, senmon, “expertise, area of study”)

門戸 (もんこ, “family”)

Kanji in this term

門

もん Grade: 2

on'yomi

Noun

門 (hiragana もん, romaji mon)

1. gate

Kanji in this term

門

かど Grade: 2

kun'yomi

Noun

門 (hiragana かど, romaji kado)

1. gate

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Korean

Hanja

門 (mun)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 문 (revised: mun, McCune-Reischauer: mun, Yale: mwun)

• Name (hangeul): 문 (revised: mun, McCune-Reischauer: mun, Yale: mwun)

1. gate, door, gateway, portal

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Vietnamese

Han character

門 (môn, món, mon, cao)

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