星圖

The 門 family

門 · mén · ㄇㄣˊ — gate

Know 門 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 們、問、聞、悶. In traditional Chinese, most characters carry a sound component — a phonetic — and learning the phonetic once lights up its whole family. This page is that family, drawn live from the map.

門 mén · gate門們 men · sound from 門 · 77%們問 wèn · sound from 門 · 56%問聞 wén · sound from 門 · 56%聞悶 mèn · sound from 門 · 77%悶開門 kāimén · (lit. and fig.) to open a door開門出門 chūmén · to go out出門關門 guānmén · to close a door關門部門 bùmén · department部門阿門 āmén · amen阿門門口 ménkǒu · doorway門口大門 dàmén · entrance大門專門 zhuānmén · specialized專門敲門 qiāomén · to knock on a door敲門把門 bǎmén · to stand as a goalkeeper把門上門 shàngmén · to drop in上門前門 qiánmén · front door前門門外 ménwài · outside the door門外門鎖 ménsuǒ · door lock門鎖

The characters

One sound, many meanings: the 部首 beside each character is the other half of the pair, the part that tells them apart.

The percentage is our computed confidence that 門 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 門 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 67%.

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