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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
- —惣門main gate
- —門構gate (of a property); (in the) style of a gate; gate-equipped (house, shop, etc.); kanji "gate" radical (radical 169)
- —潜門small gate
- —萱門thatched-roof gate (used as the entrance to a garden, esp. of a tea ceremony house); my home
- —坅門small gate in a mud or stone wall
- —門表nameplate; doorplate
- —二王門Deva gate; temple gate guarded by fierce Deva Kings; temple gate of the Nio
- —こう門anus
- —波羅門Brahmin (highest caste in Hinduism; traditional occupation of priesthood); Brahmanism; priest of Brahmanism
- —登龍門gateway to success
- —門前払turning 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)
- —多門天Vaisravana (one of the Four Heavenly Kings)
- —八足門single-tiered gate with eight secondary pillars supporting the four main central pillars
- —五門禪five approaches to meditation; five objects of meditation
- —宗門改めJapanese religious census used to repress Christians (Edo period)
- —門がまえgate (of a property); (in the) style of a gate; gate-equipped (house, shop, etc.); kanji "gate" radical (radical 169)
- —専門馬鹿ignorance outside of one's own field; overspecialization; one-trick pony
- —婆羅門教Brahmanism
- —打首獄門beheading followed by mounting of the head on a pike in front of the prison (Edo period)
- —門を叩くto knock at the gate; to request an apprenticeship; to ask to be made a pupil
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