门 (門) mén

1. mén noun door / gate / doorway / gateway
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In this sense 门 is an architectural feature. For example, 有人敲门 'someone knocked at the door.' (Lao She, 2003, p. 174) 门 is also used in old Chinese in this sense (ABCE '門'; GHDC '门' 1; FE '門' 1; Kroll 2015 '門' 1, p. 300). When used in Buddhism 门 translates the Sanskrit term ”dvāra” (FGDB '門'; MW 'dvāra').
2. mén noun phylum / division
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Biology
   Notes: (Guoyu '門' n 8)
3. mén noun sect / school
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 派别 or 宗派 (GHDC '门' 7; Guoyu '門' n 5; FE '門' 3; Kroll 2015 '門' 2, p. 300)
4. mén noun Kangxi radical 169
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: Gate (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7)
5. mén measure word measure word for lessons, subjects, large guns, etc
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
   Notes: Used for (1) large guns (2) lessons and skills and (3) marriage and relatives (GHDC '门' 10; FE '門' 6)
6. mén noun a door-like object
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In this sense 门 is an object that performs the function of a gate or door. For example, 闸门 'sluice gate.' (GHDC '门' 2)
7. mén noun an opening
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Especially, an opening in the body (GHDC '门' 3).
8. mén noun an access point / a border entrance
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 门径 (GHDC '门' 4, 5)
9. mén noun a household / a clan
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 家族 (GHDC '门' 6; FE '門' 2)
10. mén noun a kind / a category
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 类别 (GHDC '门' 8; FE '門' 4; Kroll 2015 '門' 3, p. 300)
11. mén verb to guard a gate
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 守门 (GHDC '门' 9; FE '門' 7)
12. mén proper noun Men
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (GHDC '门' 11)
13. mén noun a turning point
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (FE '門' 5; FE '門' 8)
14. mén noun a method
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '門' 1a, p. 300)
15. mén noun a sense organ
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '門' 1b, p. 300)

Contained in

• 独立门户(獨立門戶) to live apart from parents (of married couple) / to achieve independence
• 衡门(衡門) a door hung from a crossbeam
• 后门(後門) the back door ; under the counter
• 崇文门(崇文門) Chongwenmen gate
• 板门店停战村(板門店停戰村) Panmunjom village on the DMZ between North and South Korea
• 龙门刨(龍門刨) double column surface grinding machine
• 海关部门(海關部門) customs section
• 澳门币(澳門幣) Macau pataca
• 所罗门(所羅門) Solomon
• 囟门(囟門) fontanel
• 关门大吉(關門大吉) to close down a business for good and put the best face on it
• 门面(門面) shop front / storefront
• 囟脑门(囟腦門) fontanel (gap between the bones of an infant's skull)
• 串门(串門) to call on somebody / to drop in / to visit
• 天门冬科(天門冬科) Asparagaceae, family of flowering plants which includes asparagus
• 南门(南門) South Gate
• 门限(門限) doorsill
• 满门抄斩(滿門抄斬) to execute the whole family and confiscate their property
• 开门见山(開門見山) open the door and see the mountain / to get right to the point
• 阿门(阿門) amen
• 房门(房門) door of a room
• 闭门羹(閉門羹) to be refused entrance / to find the door closed
• 娼门(娼門) having a prostitute as a forebear
• 守门员(守門員) goal-keeper
• 不是一家人不进一家门(不是一家人不進一家門) people who don't belong together, don't get to live together / marriages are predestined / people marry because they share common traits
• 秀才不出门，全知天下事(秀才不出門，全知天下事) a learned person need not leave his home to know what's going on in the world
• 门房(門房) gatehouse / lodge / gatekeeper / porter
• 吃闭门羹(吃閉門羹) to be refused entrance / to find the door closed
• 改换门庭(改換門庭) to improve one's family's social status by moving up in the world

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北门乡 、 门户网站 、 清河门区 、 三圣圆融观门 、 回向门 、 异门 、 宣阳门 、 雅典的泰门 、 德拉门 、 陀罗尼门 、 荆门 、 叶门峰 、 崖门战役 、 释门自镜录 、 安心法门 、 澳门特别行政区 、 法门 、 浙江三门县 、 空解脱门 、 安门 、 夷门 、 朝阳门

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• 卷六十三　　　　表第三　　　宰相下 Volume 63 Tables 3: Chancellors 3 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 186
• 卷六十二　　　　表第二　　　宰相中 Volume 62 Tables 2: Chancellors 2 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 105
• 《門部》 Mén Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 94
• 卷一百二十一 志第七十四 禮二十四 Volume 121 Treatises 74: Rites 24 History of Song 宋史 — count: 82
• 卷六十一　　　　表第一　　　宰相上 Volume 61 Tables 1: Chancellors 1 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 76
• 卷六十八 志第四十四 輿服四 Volume 68 Treatises 44: Carriages and Clothing 4 History of Ming 明史 — count: 74
• 卷七十四 志第五十 職官三 Volume 74 Treatises 50: Official Posts 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 69
• 卷二百十二 表第三 宰輔三 Volume 212 Tables 3: Chancellors 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 65
• 卷八十五 志第三十八 地理一 Volume 85 Treatises 38: Geography 1 History of Song 宋史 — count: 65
• 卷八　　　　　　本紀第八　穆宗　敬宗　文宗　武宗　宣宗 Volume 8 Annals 8: Muzong, Jingzong, Wenzong, Wuzong, Xuanzong New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 64

Collocations

• 门之外 (門之外) 劍及於寢門之外 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 10
• 雉门 (雉門) 雉門及兩觀災 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 定公 Lord Ding — count: 6
• 桐门 (桐門) 圍宋門于桐門 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 5
• 门及 (門及) 雉門及兩觀災 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 定公 Lord Ding — count: 5
• 稷门 (稷門) 能投蓋於稷門 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 4
• 寝门 (寢門) 寢門闢矣 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 4
• 门中 (門中) 死於門中 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 4
• 卢门 (盧門) 為盧門之椽 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 桓公 Lord Huan — count: 3
• 启门 (啟門) 偪陽人啟門 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 3
• 多门 (多門) 晉政多門 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 3