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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *门* | 门* | *门
gate / door / CL: / gateway / doorway / CL: 個|个 / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)
HSK 1
to close (a door) / to turn off (light, electrical equipment etc)
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *道* | 道* | *道
road; path (CL:條|条,) / (bound form) way; reason; principle / (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization / (Daoism) the Way; the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division)
HSK 2
entrance / door / gate / large and influential family
HSK 2
to drop in / to visit / to lock a door / (of a shop) to close / to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *暗* | 暗* | *暗
(literary) to close (a door) / to eclipse / confused; ignorant (variant of ) / dark (variant of )
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *户* | 户* | *户
a household / door / family
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *扇* | 扇* | *扇
fan / sliding, hinged or detachable flat part of sth / classifier for doors, windows etc
HSK 5
entrance door / to enter a door / to learn the basics of a subject; introduction (to a subject); (attributive) entry-level
HSK 5
next door / neighbor
HSK 5
to knock on a door
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *铺* | 铺* | *铺
to spread / to display / to set up / (old) holder for door-knocker
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *框* | 框* | *框
frame (e.g. door frame) / casing / fig. framework / template / to circle (i.e. draw a circle around sth) / to frame / to restrict / Taiwan pr. [kuang1]
HSK 7-9
to lock (a door) / to close with a latch / to lock into place / a lock / a latch / to lock a computer file (to prevent it being overwritten) / to lock (denying access to a computer system or device or files, e.g. by password-protection) / to focus attention on / to target
HSK 7-9
lit. to mend the pen after sheep are lost (idiom) / fig. to act belatedly / better late than never / to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted
HSK 7-9
(lit.) to enter through the back door / (fig.) to pull strings; to use connections / (fig.) (slang) to have anal sex
HSK 7-9
security door
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *掩* | 掩* | *掩
to cover up; to conceal / to close (a door, book etc) / (coll.) to get (one's fingers etc) caught when closing a door or lid / (literary) to launch a surprise attack
lit. shut the door and beat the dog (idiom) / fig. seal off the enemy's avenue of retreat, then strike hard
to settle privately / to solve behind closed doors / to settle out of court
back door; back gate / (fig.) back-door influence; under-the-table dealings / anus / (computing) backdoor
car door / door of bus, railway carriage etc
peephole (in a door) / (mineralogy) chrysoberyl
to open a door (lit. and fig.) / to open for business
to select sb for a position without announcing the decision until later / to decide behind closed doors / all cut and dried
lantern with a carousel of paper horses rotating under convection, used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节 / (fig.) revolving door; musical chairs (metaphor for people being shuffled around into different jobs)
to close by coming together (like the lips of a wound, the doors of an elevator, the walls of a channel) / to close by connecting in a loop (like a circuit) / closed-loop
next-door neighbor; neighboring household
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闺* | 闺* | *闺
small arched door / boudoir; lady's chamber / (fig.) women
to close a door / to lock a door / (of a shop etc) to close (for the night or permanently)
the Doors, US rock band
to lock one's door and refuse to see sb
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *阖* | 阖* | *阖
door / to close / whole
to leave (a room etc); to go out through (a door etc)
door god
to leave the door unlocked for sb
door lock
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *匾* | 匾* | *匾
horizontal rectangular inscribed tablet hung over a door or on a wall / shallow round woven bamboo basket
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *阑* | 阑* | *阑
railing / balustrade / door-screen / exhausted / late
to close a door
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *扦* | 扦* | *扦
short slender pointed piece of metal, bamboo etc / skewer / prod used to extract samples from sacks of grain etc / (dialect) to stick in / to bolt (a door) / to arrange (flowers in a vase) / to graft (tree) / to pedicure / to peel (an apple etc)
outside the door
to break the door down and enter (idiom)
arched door
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *槛* | 槛* | *槛
door sill / threshold
lit. to open the door and see the mountain; fig. to get right to the point (idiom)
lit. fill the door / fill the house (at a wedding or auspicious occasion)
privately; secretly; behind closed doors
couplet (hung on each side of the door frame)
door plate / house number
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闱* | 闱* | *闱
door to women's room / gate to palace
side door / doing things by the side door (i.e. dishonestly)
door frame
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *辟* | 辟* | *辟
to open (a door) / to open up (for development) / to dispel; to refute; to repudiate / (bound form) penetrating; incisive
neighbors / next-door neighbors / related work units / colleagues doing related work
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *樘* | 樘* | *樘
pillar / door post / door or window frame / classifier for doors or windows
(literary) next-door neighbor / near; next to / Taiwan pr. [bi4lin2]
to hit a wall / (fig.) to hit a brick wall; to hit a snag; to have the door slammed in one's face
in front of the door
door / the opening panel of a door
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *扊* | 扊* | *扊
upright bar for fastening a door
(idiom) to struggle on whilst at death's door
lit. flowing water does not rot, nor a door-hinge rust (idiom) / fig. constant activity prevents decay
house door / family clan
side door / wicket door
side door
to seal up (a door with a paper seal, or a document) / to confer an additional title on a nobleman
locked in (with the door locked from the outside)
to lock the door
lintel (of a door) / fig. family's social status
facing death / at death's door
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *咣* | 咣* | *咣
(onom.) bang / door banging shut
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *扃* | 扃* | *扃
(literary) to shut or bolt a door / door
to knock on a door
to partially obscure / (of a door, gate or window) slightly open; ajar; not fully shut; unlocked / (of a jacket or shirt) unbuttoned
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *枨* | 枨* | *枨
door post
door knocker (in the shape of a ring)
neighbor / person next door
lit. you can net sparrows at the door (idiom) / fig. completely deserted
to rush out through a door (idiom)
horizontal bar to hold a door closed (made of wood or metal) / door bolt
couplet (hung on each side of the door frame)
(literary) mythical creature resembling a tiger whose image was painted on prison doors / (literary) prison
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闼* | 闼* | *闼
door of an inner room
to ask sb to leave / to show sb the door / to give a tenant notice to leave
hanging screen / curtain over shop door (for privacy and serving as advertisement)
lit. doors not locked at night (idiom); fig. stable society
lit. the snow piles up at Cheng Yi's door (idiom) / fig. deep reverence for one's master
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *戺* | 戺* | *戺
door pivot
to be at death's door (idiom)
screen door
gate or door facing the street
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *阘* | 阘* | *阘
door or window in an upper story
locked in (with the door locked from the outside)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *椳* | 椳* | *椳
the pivots, at the top and bottom of a Chinese door, on which the door turns
to lean forward / to lean out (of a window, door etc)
to answer the door
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *閛* | 閛* | *閛
the sound of opening or closing the door
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *楗* | 楗* | *楗
material (such as rocks, earth, bamboo etc) used to hastily repair a dike / (literary) door bar (vertical bar used to prevent the horizontal movement of a door bolt)
leaving the door open invites the thief (idiom); to invite disaster by giving evildoers a free hand

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