mén

Traditional:

门 (mén) is a Chinese word meaning “gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇[shan4]); valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure; way to do sth; knack; method; approach”.

Meanings

  1. 1gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇[shan4])
  2. 2valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure
  3. 3way to do sth; knack; method; approach
  4. 4family; household; lineage
  5. 5(bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic)
  6. 6(bound form) class; category; division; phylum
  7. 7classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc
  8. 8(suffix) -gate (scandal)
Part of speech
noun, measure word

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