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門
Radical 169 (U+2FA8)
門 (U+9580) "gate, door"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	mén
Bopomofo:	ㄇㄣˊ
Wade–Giles:	men2
Cantonese Yale:	mun4
Jyutping:	mun4
Japanese Kana:	モン mon (on'yomi) かど kado (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	문 mun
Hán-Việt:	môn, món, mon
Names
Chinese name(s):	門字框/门字框 ménzìkuàng
Japanese name(s):	門構/もんがまえ/かどがまえ mongamae/kadogamae
Hangul:	문 mun
Stroke order animation

Stroke order of the simplified form 门

Radical 169 or radical gate (門部) meaning "gate" or "door" is one of the 9 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 8 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 246 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

门, the simplified form of 門, is the 47th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while the traditional form 門 is listed as its associated indexing component.

Evolution

Two doors (戶); unrelated to 円 ("Yen") and 鬥.

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  Shang dynasty Oracle bone script
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  Shang dynasty Bronze script
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  Western Zhou Bronze script
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  Chu slip and silk script
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  Qin slip script
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters (門)	Characters (门)
+0	門	门SC (=門)
+1	閁 閂	闩SC (=閂)
+2	閃 閄 閅 (=門)	闪SC (=閃)
+3	閆 閇 (=閉) 閈 閉 閊	闫SC (=閆) 闬 (=閈) 闭SC (=閉) 问SC (=問 -> 口) 闯SC (=闖)
+4	開 閌 閍 閎 閏 閐 閑 閒 間 閔 閕 閖 閗 (=鬥 -> 鬥)	闰SC (=閏) 闱SC (=闈) 闲SC (=閒) 闳SC (=閎) 间SC (=間) 闵SC (=閔) 闶SC (=閌) 闷SC (=悶 -> 心)
+5	閘 閙 (=鬧 -> 鬥) 閚 閛 閜 閝 閞 閟 閠 (=閏)	闸SC (=閘) 闹SC (=鬧 -> 鬥)
+6	閡 関JP (=關) 閣 閤 閥 閦 閧 (=鬨 -> 鬥 / 巷 -> 己) 閨 閩 閪	闺SC (=閨) 闻SC (=聞 -> 耳) 闼SC (=闥) 闽SC (=閩) 闾SC (=閭) 闿SC (=闓) 阀SC (=閥) 阁SC (=閣) 阂SC (=閡)
+7	閫 閬 閭 閮 閯 閰 閱 閲JP/HK/GB TC (=閱) 閳 (=闡) 閴	阃SC (=閫) 阄SC (=鬮 -> 鬥) 阅SC (=閱) 阆SC (=閬)
+8	閵 閶 閸 閹 閺 閻 閼 閽 閾 閿 闀 闁 (=褒 -> 衣) 闂	阇SC (=闍) 阈SC (=閾) 阉SC (=閹) 阊SC (=閶) 阋SC (=鬩 -> 鬥) 阌SC (=閿) 阍SC (=閽) 阎SC (=閻) 阏SC (=閼) 阐SC (=闡)
+9	閷 (=殺 -> 殳) 闃 闄 闅 闆 闇 闈 闉 闊 闋 闌 闍 闎 闏	阑SC (=闌) 阒SC (=闃) 阓SC (=闠) 阔SC (=闊) 阕SC (=闋)
+10	闐 闑 闒 闓 闔 闕 闖 闗 (=關) 闘JP (=鬥 -> 鬥)	阖SC (=闔) 阗SC (=闐) 阘SC (=闒) 阙SC (=闕)
+11	闙 闚 闛 關 闝 阚SC (=闞)
+12	闞 闟 闠 闡
+13	闢 闣 闤 闥 闦 阛SC (=闤)
+14	闧

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/門

Sinogram

Alone it is a Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a second grade kanji.

Literature

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+9580