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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *門* | 門* | *門
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
doorway / gate / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
entrance / door / gate / large and influential family
HSK 2
to push open (a gate etc) / to push away / to reject / to decline
HSK 3
power switch / gas valve / to open the city (or frontier) gate / to open and close / to switch on and off
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *閘* | 閘* | *閘
sluice; sluice gate / to dam up water / (coll.) brake / (coll.) electric switch
HSK 7-9
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *閶* | 閶* | *閶
gate of heaven / gate of palace
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *觀* | 觀* | *觀
Taoist monastery / palace gate watchtower / platform
Bill Gates (1955-), co-founder of Microsoft
back door; back gate / (fig.) back-door influence; under-the-table dealings / anus / (computing) backdoor
Longmen county in Huizhou 惠州, Guangdong / mythical Dragon gate where a carp can transform into a dragon
South Gate to Heaven, the name a gate constructed on various mountains, most notably on Mount Tai 泰山 / (mythology) southern gate of the Heavenly Palace
to intrude / to charge in / to gate-crash
sluice-gate / flood discharge valve
city gate
Tiananmen Gate, entrance of the Imperial City in Beijing
sluice gate
gate to enlightment (Buddhism) / Buddhism / way / method / (old) south gate of a palace
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *閻* | 閻* | *閻
(literary) the gate of a lane
to drive (vehicle) / to drive out / to chase away / to herd (people towards a gate)
to stand as a goalkeeper / to keep guard on a gate
open sluice gate / (toll) station / boarding gate (airport etc) / (fig.) gateway (access point)
the gates of hell
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *墩* | 墩* | *墩
block / gate pillar / pier / classifier for clusters of plants / classifier for rounds in a card game: trick / (archaic) watchtower
(archaic) capital's gate / country's border
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *閭* | 閭* | *閭
gate of a village / village
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *閎* | 閎* | *閎
big / gate
city gate tower
corner gate
Gates (name)
to partially obscure / (of a door, gate or window) slightly open; ajar; not fully shut; unlocked / (of a jacket or shirt) unbuttoned
area outside a city gate
departure gate (aviation)
grid (in vacuum tubes) / gate (terminal of a field-effect transistor)
gate
doorway / gate / entrance
Chongwenmen gate in Beijing
gate valve; sluice valve
Hangu Pass in modern day Henan Province, strategic pass forming the eastern gate of the Qin State during the Warring States Period (770-221 BC)
semicircular defensive enclosure around city gates / crescent-shaped barbican
Yumen Pass, or Jade Gate, western frontier post on the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty, west of Dunhuang, in Gansu
to knock at the gate (old) / to make an approach / to invade / to attack the goal (sports)
to forbid sb to go out / to confine to one location (e.g. student, soldier, prisoner, monk etc) / to ground (as disciplinary measure) / to gate / to curfew / restriction on movement / ban on visiting a place / out of bounds / off limits / caveat
sluice / water gate / waterlocks / floodgate / lock / dam
gate / door with grating / turnstile / logical gate (electronics)
enceinte of a city gate / barbican entrance to a city
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闍* | 闍* | *闍
defensive platform over gate / barbican
a fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat (idiom); the bystander will also suffer / fig. you can't escape responsibility for your actions / ask not for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee
guard at gate / sentry
main entrance / main gate / portal
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闈* | 闈* | *闈
door to women's room / gate to palace
monastery main gate (Buddhism) / monastery
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闠* | 闠* | *闠
gate of market
lit. devil's gate, crooked path (idiom); corrupt practices / crooked methods / dishonesty
a screen wall across the gate of a house (for privacy)
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *閈* | 閈* | *閈
gate of a village
overgrown gate, wicker windows (idiom); poor person's house / humble home
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闉* | 闉* | *闉
inner gates
the Yi gate of 大梁, capital of Wei during Warring states
(electronics) inverter; NOT gate
Li Jiancheng (589-626), eldest son of first Tang emperor Li Yuan 唐高祖李淵|唐高祖李渊, murdered by his brother 李世民 in the Xuanwu Gate coup 玄武門之變|玄武门之变 / Professor Li Jiancheng (1964-), geophysicist and specialist in satellite geodesy
Yongdingmen, front gate of the outer section of Beijing's old city wall, torn down in the 1950s and reconstructed in 2005
iron defense / defensive gate or wall (refers to the Great Wall)
lower sluice gate / outflow sluice
lit. the gate of a noble house is like the sea (idiom) / fig. there is a wide gap between the nobility and the common people
watchtower on either side of a city gate / (literary) city / imperial palace
OR gate (electronics)
rotor sluice gate
Xuanwu gate coup of June 626 in early Tang, in which Li Shimin 李世民 killed his brothers, seized the throne from his father as Emperor Taizong 唐太宗
boarding gate
boarding gate (at airport) / aircraft boarding bridge
boarding gate
AND gate (electronics)
Gates (name)
overgrown gate, wicker windows (idiom); poor person's house / humble home
Xizhimen neighborhood of Beijing / the main northwest gate of Beijing
person who crashes through a barrier / gate-crasher
defensive gate
"Phone Gate", corruption scandal unearthed through telephone records


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