门 mén▶ pintu

Stroke order

门 is written in 3 strokes.

• 门

Senses

1. valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure
2. way to do sth; knack; method; approach
3. family; household; lineage
4. (bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic)
5. (bound form) class; category; division; phylum
6. classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc
7. (suffix) -gate (scandal)

Example sentences

• 我开门进来。Wǒ kāi mén jìnlái.I open the door and come in.
• 门外下雨了。Mén wài xiàyǔ le.It is raining outside the door.
• 请开门。Qǐng kāi mén.Please open the door.
• 门在左边吗？Mén zài zuǒbiān ma?Is the door on the left?

Related words

• 专门khusus
• 部门departemen
• 热门Panas
• 窍门trik

门 is pronounced mén and means “pintu”. You will meet it in HSK 2, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 门 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.