門外

See also: 门外

Chinese

		opening; door; gate opening; door; gate; doorway; gateway; valve; switch; way to do something; knack; family; house; (religious) sect; school (of thought); class; category; phylum or division (taxonomy)	outside; in addition; foreign outside; in addition; foreign; external
trad. (門外)		門	外
simp. (门外)		门	外

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ménwài

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄣˊ ㄨㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mun⁴ ngoi⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mùn-ngoi
• Min Nan (Hokkien, POJ): mn̂g-gōa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ménwài
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄣˊ ㄨㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ménwài
    • Wade–Giles: mên²-wai⁴
    • Yale: mén-wài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: menway
    • Palladius: мэньвай (mɛnʹvaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mən³⁵ waɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mun⁴ ngoi⁶
    • Yale: mùhn ngoih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mun⁴ ngoi⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: mun⁴ ngoi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /muːn²¹ ŋɔːi̯²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mùn-ngoi
    • Hakka Romanization System: munˇ ngoi
    • Hagfa Pinyim: mun² ngoi⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /mun¹¹ ŋoi̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mn̂g-gōa
    • Tâi-lô: mn̂g-guā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mnggoa
    • IPA (Xiamen): /mŋ̍²⁴⁻²² ɡua²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /mŋ̍²⁴⁻²² ɡua⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /mŋ̍¹³⁻²² ɡua²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /mŋ̍²⁴⁻¹¹ ɡua³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /mŋ̍²³⁻³³ ɡua³³/

Adjective

門外

1. outside the door

   我就在門外，給我開門。 [MSC, trad.]
   我就在门外，给我开门。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ jiù zài ménwài, gěi wǒ kāimén. [Pinyin]

   Open the door for me; I'm outside.

Derived terms

• 門外漢／门外汉 (ménwàihàn)