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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
- —倚門の望mother's feeling as she waits for her child to return
- —桃李満門gathering of excellent and capable people
- —門前薬局pharmacy right outside a doctor's office or hospital
- —宗門改役magistrate in charge of finding out and converting hidden Christians (during the Edo period)
- —人工肛門artificial anus
- —専門外来specialist outpatient department
- —専門病院specialist hospital; special hospital
- —専門機関specialist agency; specialized agency; professional body
- —専門組織specialist organization
- —専門学院vocational college
- —声門靭帯ligament of the glottis
- —肛門挙筋levator anus muscles; levator ani
- —肛門外科proctology; colorectal surgery
- —奇門遁甲Qimen Dunjia (ancient Chinese divination method)
- —頂門の一針painful reproach; a needle in one's scalp
- —軍門に下るto capitulate; to surrender; to submit to; to concede
- —節足動物門Arthropoda
- —専門的知識expert (technical) knowledge; expertise
- —被子植物門Magnoliophyta (phylum of flowering plants); Angiospermae
- —蛤御門の変Hamaguri Gomon incident (1864 clash between pro and anti-shogunate forces)
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