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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
- —神門gate of a (Shinto) shrine
- —宮門gate of a palace
- —門内inside the gates
- —本門main gate; front gate; latter half of the Lotus Sutra, which describes the nature of the Buddha
- —迹門first half of the Lotus Sutra, in which the Buddha appears as a spatiotemporally restricted being
- —茅門thatched-roof gate (used as the entrance to a garden, esp. of a tea ceremony house); my home
- —中門gate in the middle of the corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture); central gate (between the main gate and main hall of a temple); central gate (separating the inner and outer gardens of a teahouse)
- —門廊corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture)
- —閨門entrance to a bedroom; bedroom; home; family life; conjugal relationship
- —門生pupil; student; follower
- —門中Okinawa family clan based on the paternal line that shares the same tomb and performs rituals together
- —小門small gate; side gate; wicket gate; side door
- —貞門Teimon school (of haikai, founded by Matsunaga Teitoku)
- —穴門small gate in a mud or stone wall
- —衙門government office; public office
- —門主head priest of temple formerly led by founder of sect
- —蕉門disciple of Basho
- —笑門(good fortune and happiness will come to) the home of those who smile
- —門標nameplate; doorplate
- —上門superphylum
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