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大门

dàmén

entrance

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

entrance

02

door

03

gate

04

large and influential family

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 大门 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 大门 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

锁大门。suǒ dà mén。

Lock the gate.

我把大门漆成了蓝色的。wǒ bǎ dà mén qī chéng le lán sè de。

I painted the gate blue.

让我们看看能不能把大门关上。ràng wǒ men kàn kàn néng bù néng bǎ dà mén guān shàng。

Let's see if we can get the gate closed.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 大门.

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

Directly before

  • 把大门3
  • 锁大门1
  • 了大门1

Directly after

  • 大门漆成1
  • 大门旁边1
  • 大门关上1
  • 大门涂成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 大门

What does 大门 mean in Chinese?

大门 (dàmén) means entrance.

How do you pronounce 大门?

大门 is pronounced dàmén.

Is 大门 an HSK word?

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

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