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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
- —天安門事件Tiananmen Square Massacre (1989); Tiananmen Square Incident
- —不採算部門unprofitable department; loss-making division; loss-making segment
- —虎ノ門事件Toranomon Incident (assassination attempt on Prince Regent Hirohito; December 27, 1923)
- —専門図書館special library
- —専門用語集glossary of technical terms
- —門戸を開くto open the door (to the world, women, etc.)
- —血液脳関門blood-brain barrier
- —肛門括約筋anal sphincter
- —打ち首獄門beheading followed by mounting of the head on a pike in front of the prison (Edo period)
- —応天門の変Ōtenmon incident (conspiracy in 866 CE that centered on the destruction of the main gate of the Imperial Palace)
- —専門委員会advisory committee; committee of experts; advisory panel
- —門をたたくto knock at the gate; to request an apprenticeship; to ask to be made a pupil
- —心臓専門医cardiologist; heart specialist
- —門戸を張るto keep a fine house; to put up a front; to make the front of the house nice (and be pretentious about it)
- —脊索動物門Chordata (phylum of deuterostome animals)
- —棘皮動物門Echinodermata (phylum of marine invertebrates)
- —襟鞭毛虫門Choanozoa (phylum of protists closer to animals than to fungi)
- —扁形動物門Platyhelminthes (phylum of flatworms)
- —半索動物門Hemichordata (phylum of marine deuterostomes)
- —平板動物門Placozoa (phylum of multicellular invertebrates)
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