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.
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.
- 們men · ˙ㄇㄣ部首 亻 單人旁 · personplural marker (我們 "we", 他們 "they")77%
- 問wèn · ㄨㄣˋ部首 口 · mouthto ask; to inquire56%
- 聞wén · ㄨㄣˊ部首 耳 · earto hear; news56%
- 悶mèn · ㄇㄣˋ部首 心 · heartbored; depressed77%
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%.
Words this family builds
- 我們
- 他們
- 你們
- 問題
- 它們
- 人們
- 咱們
- 開門
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