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門: gate, counter for cannons

JLPT N28 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
8 strokes
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Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

モンmon · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 門もんgate
  • 正門せいもんmain gate
  • 校門こうもんschool gate
  • 専門せんもんspeciality
  • 部門ぶもんcategory
  • 名門めいもんdistinguished family
  • 入門するにゅうもんするenter an institute
  • 破門するはもんするexpel

かどkado · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 門かどgate
  • 門出かどでdeparture, setting out

Also read と, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Pictogram (象形)

A gate.

Source: Wiktionary, 門 (rev. 94582149), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Imagine the grand entrance to a temple or a fortress! Two heavy wooden doors stand ready to swing wide.”
More in the 門 gate story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

門 gives its sound to

The family reading is モン (mon). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read モン

4 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSimplified 门 · traditional, as in Japanese · mén

Japan keeps the traditional form 門; mainland China simplifies it to 门.

Simplified
门 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
門 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin mén most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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