門人

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See also: 閄 and 门人

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; (taxonomy) phylum or division	man; person; people
trad. (門人)		門	人
simp. (门人)		门	人
anagram		人門／人门

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ménrén

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄣˊ ㄖㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mun⁴ jan⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): mn̂g-lâng

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ménrén
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄣˊ ㄖㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ménrén
  - Wade–Giles: mên²-jên²
  - Yale: mén-rén
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: menren
  - Palladius: мэньжэнь (mɛnʹžɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mən³⁵ ʐən³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: mun⁴ jan⁴
  - Yale: mùhn yàhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mun⁴ jan⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: mun⁴ yen⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /muːn²¹ jɐn²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mn̂g-lâng
  - Tâi-lô: mn̂g-lâng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: mnglaang
  - IPA (Xiamen): /mŋ̍²⁴⁻²² laŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /mŋ̍²⁴⁻²² laŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /mŋ̍¹³⁻²² laŋ¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /mŋ̍²⁴⁻¹¹ laŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /mŋ̍²³⁻³³ laŋ²³/

Middle Chinese: mwon nyin

Rime
Character	門	人
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	莫奔切	如鄰切
Baxter	mwon	nyin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muən/	/ȵiɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/muon/	/ȵin/
Shao Rongfen	/muən/	/ȵʑjen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mwən/	/ȵin/
Li Rong	/muən/	/ȵiĕn/
Wang Li	/muən/	/ȵʑĭĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/muən/	/ȵʑi̯ĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mén	rén
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mun⁴	jan⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤə ni/

(Zhengzhang): /*mɯːn njin/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	門	人
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mén	rén
Middle Chinese	‹ mwon ›	‹ nyin ›
Old Chinese	/*mˁə/	/*ni/
English	gate, door	(other) person
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	門	人
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	8960	10800
Phonetic component	門	人
Rime group	文	眞
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	門	仁
Old Chinese	/*mɯːn/	/*njin/

Noun

門人

door guard; gate guard
disciple

Synonyms

(disciple):

學師仔／学师仔 (hok⁶ si¹ zai²) (Cantonese)
學徒／学徒 (xuétú)
學徒工／学徒工 (xuétúgōng)
學生／学生 (xuéshēng)
師仔／师仔 (Hokkien, Taishanese)
師仔工／师仔工 (Hokkien)
師哥／师哥 (Longyan Min)
師囝／师囝 (sai¹ gian²) (Teochew)
弟子 (dìzǐ)
徒工 (túgōng)
徒弟 (túdì)
徒弟伢子 (dou² di⁴ nga² zr) (Xiang)
徒弟娃兒／徒弟娃儿 (tu² di⁴ war²) (Sichuanese)
門徒／门徒 (méntú)
門生／门生 (ménshēng) (literary)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (門人):

→ Japanese: 門人(もんじん) (monjin)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
門	人
もん Grade: 2	じん Grade: 1
goon	kan'on

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 門人 (MC mwon nyin) (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) もんじん (Heiban – )^[1]
IPA^(key):

Noun

門(もん)人(じん) • (monjin)

a disciple, follower, pupil, student
Synonyms: 弟子 (deshi), 門弟 (montei)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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