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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
- —家門one's family; one's clan
- —噴門cardia
- —門柱gatepost; pier
- —門脈portal vein
- —門札doorplate; nameplate; gate pass
- —大門large front gate
- —孔門disciple of Confucius; Confucian school
- —門跡(head priest of) temple formerly led by founder of sect; temple in which resided a member of nobility or imperial family; (head priest of) Honganji (temple in Kyoto)
- —鬼門the northeastern (unlucky) direction; person or thing to be avoided; the demon's gate; weak point; Achilles' heel
- —後門back gate
- —肺門pulmonary hilum
- —洞門cave entrance; tunnel
- —総門main gate
- —門人pupil; student; follower
- —門外outside a gate; beyond one's area of expertise
- —門灯gate lamp
- —門院empress dowager
- —門衛gatekeeper; doorman; porter
- —門鑑a pass allowing one through a gate
- —閉門closing of a gate; (Edo-period) house confinement
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