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mén
HSK 1freq #422

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mén
  1. 1.gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇[shàn])
  2. 2.valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure
  3. 3.way to do sth; knack; method; approach
  4. 4.family; household; lineage
  5. 5.(bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic)
  6. 6.(bound form) class; category; division; phylum
  7. 7.classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc
  8. 8.(suffix) -gate (scandal)
Mén
  1. 1.surname Men

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.gate; door; entrance; opening; portal (Classifier: 扇 m mn; 道 m c; 度 c; 條/条 c; 隻/只 c; 片 mn)
  2. 2.valve; switch
  3. 3.way of doing something; knack
  4. 4.family
  5. 5.school; sect; school of thought; tradition
  6. 6.class; category
  7. 7.phylum; division
  8. 8.logic gate
  9. 9.Classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology, and languages. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
  10. 10.Classifier for livelihoods, trades, skills, businesses, etc.
  11. 11.Classifier for thoughts, ideas, or emotions, particularly those forming a system or complex.
  12. 12.Classifier for marriage, romantic, or family relations.
  13. 13.Classifier for large guns.
  14. 14.-gate (a suffix combined with keywords to form the names of scandals)
  15. 15.hilum of an organ
  16. 16.a surname

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Etymology

Pictogram (象形): a gate. Compare 戶 (OC *ɡʷaːʔ, “(one) door”), which is half of this character (𠁣). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mur (“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 吻 (OC *mɯnʔ, “lips; corner of the lips”). ; “-gate”

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