關門

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Chinese

to close; to shut; to turn off
to close; to shut; to turn off; to concern; to involve; mountain pass
 
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
 
trad. (關門) 關 門
simp. (关门) 关 门

Pronunciation

Note: guên1 mung5 - Chaozhou.
Rime
Character 關 門
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 刪 (70) 魂 (55)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) II I
Fanqie 古還切 莫奔切
Baxter kwaen mwon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kˠuan/ /muən/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʷᵚan/ /muon/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kuɐn/ /muən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kwaɨn/ /mwən/
Li
Rong 		/kuan/ /muən/
Wang
Li 		/kwan/ /muən/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kwan/ /muən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		guān mén
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gwaan1 mun4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 關 門
Reading # 1/3 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		guān mén
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kwæn › ‹ mwon ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁro/ /*mˁə/
English barrier 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 關 門
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 8640 8960
Phonetic
component 		卵 門
Rime
group 		元 文
Rime
subdivision 		3 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		關 門
Old
Chinese 		/*kroːn/ /*mɯːn/

Verb

關⫽門 (verb-object)

  1. to close the door
    隨手關門。／随手关门。  ―  Suíshǒu guānmén.  ―  Close the door behind you.
  2. (figurative) to close for business (for the day or permanently); to close down
    政府關門／政府关门  ―  zhèngfǔ guānmén  ―  government shutdown
  3. (figurative) to close the door on; to leave no room for negotiation

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 關門 (“to close the door”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 關門, 閉門
Northeastern Mandarin Taiwan 關門
Singapore 關門
Central Plains Mandarin Luoyang 關門兒
Xining 關門
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 關門
Guiyang 關門
Liuzhou 關門
Cantonese Guangzhou 閂門
Hong Kong 閂門
Taishan 閂門
Dongguan 閂門
Gan Lichuan 關門
Hakka Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua) 閂門
Huizhou Jixi 關門
Jin Taiyuan 關門
Northern Min Jian'ou 關門
Eastern Min Fuzhou 關門
Southern Min Singapore (Hokkien) 關門
Manila (Hokkien) 關門
Singapore (Teochew) 關門
Singapore (Hainanese) 關門
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 關門
Wu Shanghai 關門
Danyang 關門
Ningbo 關門
Jinhua 關門
Xiang Loudi 關門

Antonyms

Derived terms

Adjective

關門

  1. (figurative, attributive) final; last (disciple, piece of work, etc.)

Derived terms

Noun

關門

  1. gateway
  2. kidney

Korean

Hanja in this term
關門

Noun

關門 • (gwanmun) (hangeul 관문)

  1. hanja form? of 관문 (“gate”)
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