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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
- —砲門gunport; embrasure; muzzle
- —山門main temple gate; temple
- —教門study of Buddhist theory
- —舷門gangway
- —海門strait; channel
- —唐門karamon; large gate with a karahafu gable (typically at a temple, shrine or castle)
- —権門powerful family
- —禅門Zen; entering the path of Zen
- —緑門arch of greenery
- —獄門prison gate; decapitation (of a criminal) and exposure of the head to public view (Edo-period punishment)
- —赤門red gate (esp. at Tokyo University)
- —陣門surrender to the enemy
- —稲門alumni of Waseda University
- —旗門(slalom) gate
- —閘門lock gate
- —亜門subphylum; subdivision
- —気門spiracle (respiratory pores in the body of insects)
- —閭門gate of a village
- —泉門soft spot (in the skull of an infant); fontanelle; fontanel; gates of Hades; entrance to the underworld
- —門葉bloodline; lineage; family; clan
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