Meaning & readings
gate, counter for cannons
Origin
This character is a simple picture of a gate or doorway. The two vertical strokes on the sides represent the pillars or posts of a gate, while the horizontal strokes across the middle and top represent the crossbeams and frame that hold the structure together. The enclosed space in the middle shows the opening where you pass through. Over time, this straightforward drawing of a gate's basic shape became the standard written form, and the character naturally came to mean "gate" or "doorway" in general.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Pictographic or simple.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (門).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 8
- Kangxi radical
- 169
- Grade
- Grade 2 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #452 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 3
- Unicode
- U+09580