Japanese dictionary

Dictionary: “門”

門

もん

gate

Example sentence

Two soldiers kept guard at the gate.

Kanji details

Kun/On information

門
On
もん
Kun
かど;と
Stroke count
8

・gate

・counter for cannons

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Related words to 門

49 related words

門扉

もんぴ

→

door(s) of a gate

門下生

もんかせい

→

pupil;disciple;follower

門戸

もんこ

→

door

門松

かどまつ

→

New Year's pine decoration

門下

もんか

→

one's pupil;one's student;one's follower

門外漢

もんがいかん

→

outsider;layman;amateur

門前払い

もんぜんばらい

→

turning another away at the gate or front door;refusing to receive a caller

門前

もんぜん

→

before the gate;in front of the gate

門

もん

→

branch of learning based on the teachings of a single master

門

もん

→

division;phylum

門

もん

→

counter for cannons

門番

もんばん

→

gatekeeper;door guard;doorman;concierge;janitor

門外

もんがい

→

outside a gate;beyond one's area of expertise

門出

かどで

→

setting off (on a long journey);setting out;departure (e.g. for the front);leaving home

門徒

もんと

→

follower (of religion; esp. Jōdo Shinshū practitioners);believer

門外不出

もんがいふしゅつ

→

(treasuring something by) never taking (it) off the premises

門柱

もんちゅう

→

gatepost;pier

門限

もんげん

→

closing time;lockup;curfew

門戸開放政策

もんこかいほうせいさく

→

open door policy

門出

かどで

→

starting a new life;starting life anew

門前町

もんぜんちょう

→

town originally built around a temple or shrine

門地

もんち

→

degree;lineage

門内

もんない

→

inside the gates

門下省

もんかしょう

→

Chancellery (Tang dynasty China)

門出茸

かどでたけ

→

departure mushroom

門前

メンゼン

→

one's hand being completely concealed;not having called any tiles

門前の小僧習わぬ経を読む

もんぜんのこぞうならわぬきょうをよむ

→

you learn, without realising it, from what is around you

門前雀羅を張る

もんぜんじゃくらをはる

→

to be (practically) deserted;to have no visitors

門並み

かどなみ

→

row of houses

門戸を開く

もんこをひらく

→

to open the door (to the world, women, etc.)

門前成市

もんぜんせいし

→

having a constant stream of visitors;being thronged with callers

門戸開放

もんこかいほう

→

open door policy

門戸を閉ざす

もんこをとざす

→

to close the door (to);to shut the door (to);to exclude

門中

もんちゅう

→

Okinawa family clan based on the paternal line that shares the same tomb and performs rituals together

門前清

メンゼンチン

→

one's hand being completely concealed;not having called any tiles

門前の小僧

もんぜんのこぞう

→

you learn, without realising it, from what is around you

門をたたく

もんをたたく

→

to knock at the gate

門前市をなす

もんぜんいちをなす

→

to have many visitors (of a home);to be prosperous (of a shop)

門前薬局

もんぜんやっきょく

→

pharmacy right outside a doctor's office or hospital

門前清自摸和

メンゼンチンツモホー

→

winning off a self-drawn tile while completely concealed (meld);winning off a self-drawn tile without having called any tiles

門人

もんじん

→

pupil;student;follower

門前町

もんぜんまち

→

town originally built around a temple or shrine

門主

もんしゅ

→

head priest of temple formerly led by founder of sect

門戸を張る

もんこをはる

→

to keep a fine house;to put up a front;to make the front of the house nice (and be pretentious about it)

門廊

もんろう

→

corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture)

門前雀羅

もんぜんじゃくら

→

(a house) looking deserted with few visitors

門付け

かどづけ

→

door-to-door entertainment;door-to-door entertainer;strolling musician;street musician

門札

もんさつ

→

doorplate;nameplate;gate pass

門徒物知らず

もんとものしらず

→

ignorance of Jōdo Shinshū practitioners (who only chant the Namu Amida Butsu and have little knowledge of other parts of Buddhism)