Kanji1 / 8
門 kanji
gate, counter for cannons
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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On readings
モン
Kun readings
かどと
Words with 門
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —専門知expertise; (specialized) knowledge; expert intelligence
- —雲門宗Yunmen School
- —獄門台platform on which the decapitated head of a criminal was displayed
- —専門卒vocational school graduate
- —肛門鏡anoscope; proctoscope; rectal speculum
- —桜田門Sakurada Gate; Sakuradamon; southern gate of the Tokyo Imperial Palace; Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department
- —部門長department head; division manager; head of a department
- —無門関The Gateless Barrier (13th century collection of koans, compiled by Chinese monk Wumen); The Gateless Gate
- —羅生門Rashōmon (gate in old Kyoto); Rashōmon (story by Akutagawa, film by Kurosawa)
- —将門記Shōmonki (chronicle of the Taira-no-Masakado Rebellion, ca 940CE)
- —石庫門Sekkomon (Japanese chain of Chinese restaurants)
- —噴門部cardiac region (of the stomach)
- —土左衛門drowned body of a person
- —販売部門sales department
- —門外不出(treasuring something by) never taking (it) off the premises
- —専門技術expertise; special skills
- —専門知識expertise; specialized knowledge; technical knowledge; expert knowledge
- —専門用語technical term; terminology; jargon
- —専門教育technical training; professional education
- —権門勢家great and powerful person
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