門

See also: 鬥 and 门
門 U+9580, 門
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9580
← 长
[U+957F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 閁 →
[U+9581]

Translingual
Stroke order

Han character

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

  1. Kangxi radical #169, ⾨.

Derived characters
  • Index:Chinese radical/門
  • 𪘶 𨷮

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

Chinese
trad. 門
simp. 门
variant forms 𨳇
閅
门
蘆竹德馨堂門樓。

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 門
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Qin slip script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (門) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蔄 *roːs, *mruːns
闅 *min, *mrɯn, *mɯn
閩 *mrɯn, *mɯn
蕄 *mɯːŋ, *mrɯːŋ
門 *mɯːn
捫 *mɯːn
悶 *mɯːns
聞 *mɯn, *mɯns
閿 *mɯn
問 *mɯns

Pictogram (象形) : a gate. Compare 戶 (OC *ɡʷaːʔ, “(one) door”), which is half of this character.

Pronunciation
Note:
  • mn̂g/mûi - vernacular;
  • bûn - literary.
Rime
Character 門
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 魂 (55)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 莫奔切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /muən/
Pan
Wuyun		 /muon/
Shao
Rongfen		 /muən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mwən/
Li
Rong		 /muən/
Wang
Li		 /muən/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /muən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mén
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 門
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mén
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mwon ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mˁə[r]/
English 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 門
Reading # 1/1
No. 8960
Phonetic
component		 門
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 門
Old
Chinese		 /*mɯːn/

Definitions

門

  1. gate; door; entrance; opening (Classifier: 扇 m; 道 m c)
  2. valve; switch
  3. way of doing something, knack
    門路 / 门路  ―  ménlù  ―  way of doing something
  4. family
  5. (religious) sect; school of thought
    佛門 / 佛门  ―  fómén  ―  Buddhism
  6. class; category
  7. (taxonomy) phylum; division
  8. logic gate
  9. Classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology and languages. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
  10. Classifier for large guns.
  11. Combined with keywords to form the names of scandals (from English -gate).
  12. A surname​.

Compounds
Derived terms from 門

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

Kanji
門

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds
  • 門 (もん)戸 (こ) (monko, “family”)

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
門
もん
Grade: 2
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

門 (hiragana もん, rōmaji mon)

  1. gate

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
門
かど
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

門 (hiragana かど, rōmaji kado)

  1. gate

Proper noun

門 (hiragana かど, rōmaji Kado)

  1. a surname

References
  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

門 (eumhun 문 문 (mun mun))

  1. gate, door, gateway, portal

Vietnamese

Han character

門 (môn)

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Zhuang

Pronoun

門

  1. Sawndip form of mwngz
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