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U+9580, 門
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9580

CJK Unified Ideographs
U+2FA8, ⾨
KANGXI RADICAL GATE

Kangxi Radicals

Translingual

Stroke order
8 strokes
Stroke order

Han character

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

  1. Kangxi radical #169, .
  2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №438

Derived characters

Further reading

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

Chinese

trad.
simp.
alternative forms 𨳇
𮤫
Wikipedia has articles on:

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
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

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

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-muːr (mouth; lip; to hold in mouth; to chew; face; gills) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan མུར་བ (mur ba, to masticate), Tibetan མུར་འགྲམ (mur 'gram, jawbone; cheek), Mizo hmûi (lips; upper lip) and (OC *mɯnʔ, “lips; corner of the lips”).

“-gate”
Semantic loan from English -gate, which is a back-formation from Watergate. Also influenced by Japanese 羅生門.

Pronunciation


Note:
  • mue2/mui2 - vernacular;
  • mong2/muong2 - literary.
Note:
  • mn̂g/mûi - vernacular;
  • bûn - literary.
Note: meng5 - Jieyang, Chaoyang.
    • (Leizhou)
      • Leizhou Pinyin: mui5 / mung5
      • Sinological IPA: /mui²²/, /muŋ²²/
Note:
  • mui5 - vernacular;
  • mung5 - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (55)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter mwon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/muən/
Pan
Wuyun
/muon/
Shao
Rongfen
/muən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mwən/
Li
Rong
/muən/
Wang
Li
/muən/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/muən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
mén
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
mun4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
mén
Middle
Chinese
‹ mwon ›
Old
Chinese
/*mˁə/
English gate, door

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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
Reading # 1/1
No. 8960
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mɯːn/
門/门

Definitions

  1. gate; door; entrance; opening; portal (Classifier: m mn;  m c;  c;  c;  c;  mn)
  2. valve; switch
  3. way of doing something; knack
      ―  mén  ―  way of doing something
  4. family
  5. school; sect; school of thought; tradition
      ―  mén  ―  Buddhism
      ―  ménshēng  ―  disciple of a particular tradition
  6. class; category
  7. (taxonomy) phylum; division
  8. (logic, electronics) logic gate
  9. Classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology, and languages.all nouns using this classifier
  10. Classifier for livelihoods, trades, skills, businesses, etc.
    生意不好 [MSC, trad.]
    生意不好 [MSC, simp.]
    Zhè mén shēngyì bùhǎo zuò.
    It's a tough business.
  11. Classifier for thoughts, ideas, or emotions, particularly those forming a system or complex.
    心思 [MSC, trad.]
    心思 [MSC, simp.]
    Nǐ zhè yī mén xīnsī, shéi cāidé dào?
    Who could have guessed all that in your mind?
  12. Classifier for marriage, romantic, or family relations.
    親事亲事  ―  shuō chéng yī mén qīnshì  ―  to successfully make a match
  13. Classifier for large guns.
  14. -gate (a suffix combined with keywords to form the names of scandals)
    艷照艳照  ―  Yànzhàomén  ―  Edison Chen photo scandal (literally, “explicit photo scandal”)
  15. (anatomy) hilum of an organ
  16. a surname

Synonyms

  • (large gun classifier): (zūn)

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: (もん) (mon)
  • Korean: 문(門) (mun)
  • Vietnamese: môn ()

Others:

See also

References

Japanese

Ryakuji for . Compare derived ryakuji for and , and simplified Chinese (mén).

Kanji

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
もん
Grade: 2
goon

From Middle Chinese (MC mwon).

Pronunciation

Noun

(もん) (mon

  1. a gate
  2. (religion) a sect, school of thought
  3. (biology) a phylum, division
  4. Short for 門限 (mongen): a curfew
Coordinate terms
Derived terms

Counter

(もん) (-mon

  1. counter for cannons or large guns

Affix

(もん) (mon

  1. doorway, exit and entrance
  2. clan, family, kin
  3. teaching institution
  4. set of academic doctrines
  5. Used in Sanskrit transliterations
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
かど
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

⟨kado1 → */kadʷo//kado/

From Old Japanese.

The final -do is cognate with (to, door). Compare (kago, basket), which is cognate with (ko).

Pronunciation

Noun

(かど) (kado

  1. a gate, portal
  2. an entrance, gateway, opening
  3. a clan, family, kin
Derived terms

Proper noun

(かど) (Kado

  1. a surname

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
2
door; a plate placed on doorway
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (MC mwon).

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun (mun mun))

  1. hanja form? of (gate; door; gateway; portal)

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典.

Old Japanese

Etymology 1

The final -do is cognate with (to1, door).

Noun

(kado1) (kana かど)

  1. a gate, portal
  2. an entrance, gateway, opening
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Japanese: (kado)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

(kadu) (kana かづ)

  1. (regional, Central Eastern Old Japanese) Same as カド (kado1) above
    • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 20, poem 4386:
      和加加都乃以都母等夜奈枳以都母以都母於母加古比須須奈理麻之都都母
      waga katu no2 itumoto2 yanagi2 itu mo itu mo omo ka ko1pi1susu narimasitutu mo
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: môn, món, mon

  1. chữ Hán form of môn (subject, discipline; door, entrance).

Compounds

Zhuang

Pronoun

  1. Sawndip form of mwngz