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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

进门

jìnmén

to enter a door

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to enter a door

02

to go in

03

to learn the basics of a subject

04

to join one's husband's household upon marriage

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 进门 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 进门 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

他望进门内。tā wàng jìn mén nèi。

He looked in at the door.

罗纳尔多的队友传给他一个高球,他纵身一跳,头球进门。luó nà ěr duō de duì yǒu chuán gěi tā yí gè gāo qiú, tā zòng shēn yī tiào, tóu qiú jìn mén。

Ronaldo’s teammate passed the ball high to him. He jumped up and headed it into the goal.

他一进门就把冷气调低,完全不管电费。tā yī jìn mén jiù bǎ lěng qì diào dī, wán quán bù guǎn diàn fèi。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 进门.

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

Directly before

  • 一进门2
  • 他望进门1
  • 头球进门1

Directly after

  • 进门内1
  • 进门就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 进门

What does 进门 mean in Chinese?

进门 (jìnmén) means to enter a door.

How do you pronounce 进门?

进门 is pronounced jìnmén.

Is 进门 an HSK word?

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

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