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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
- —登竜門Populargateway to success
- —専門医Popular(medical) specialist
- —板門店PopularPanmunjom (Korea); Panmunjeom; Joint Security Area (Korean Demilitarized Zone)
- —専門学校Popularvocational school; technical school
- —門前払いPopularturning someone away (at the front door); refusing a visitor; shutting the door in someone's face; refusal of admission; rejecting without consideration; denying without substantial investigation; being chased away from a magistrate's office's gate (lightest punishment during the Edo period)
- —陰門vulva
- —開門opening gate
- —玉門beautifully decorated gate; female genitalia
- —桑門monk; priest
- —軍門camp gate; general
- —沙門shramana (wandering monk)
- —三門large triple gate to temple
- —市門city gate
- —師門tutelage
- —朱門red-lacquered gate
- —出門exiting through a gate; going out; leaving (the premises)
- —城門castle gate
- —水門sluice gate; water gate; flood gate
- —勢門influential family; the man in power
- —声門glottis
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