字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE鄴3下.40.10 合34168 歷組
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.
部首Radical · in Structures & Home
門 gate, door
もんがまえ mongamae
8 strokesRadical of 13 kanjiPart of 12
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. This radical encloses other elements just like a doorway frames the world beyond it. It is the sign of transitions, openings, and the boundaries between inside and out.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates gates, doorways, openings, or concepts related to moving between spaces or being between things
What it grows into
- 開openカイ · ひらく
門 + 一 + 廾
A pair of hands opening a latched door. 一 and 廾 are combined into 开 since the Small Seal script; however, in the conservative variant 𨵑, the two hands and the latch are well visible.
Ideogrammic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 閉closedヘイ · とじる
門 + 材
Ideogrammic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 関connectionカン · せき
門 + 𢇅sound
The bronze inscription was in the form of 門 (“door”) + 卝 (“locked door; two wooden sticks to lock a door”). 卝 might also serve as a phonetic component.
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, 關, CC BY-SA 4.0
Every kanji with 門 as its radical
All 13 kanji