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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

前门

qiánmén

front door

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

front door

02

main entrance

03

honest and upright approach (as opposed to 后门, back-door or under the counter)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 前门 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 前门 appears in 7 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

走前门。zǒu qián mén。

Use the front door.

我们发现前门被锁上了。wǒ men fā xiàn qián mén bèi suǒ shàng le。

We found the front door locked.

我听到前门的门铃响了。wǒ tīng dào qián mén de mén líng xiǎng le。

I heard the front doorbell ring.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 前门.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 前门.

Directly before

  • 发现前门2
  • 敲前门1
  • 听到前门1
  • 在前门1
  • 走前门1

Directly after

  • 前门上2
  • 前门有人1
  • 前门被1
  • 前门的1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 前门

What does 前门 mean in Chinese?

前门 (qiánmén) means front door.

How do you pronounce 前门?

前门 is pronounced qiánmén.

Is 前门 an HSK word?

前门 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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