大门 (dà mén) — main entrance, front gate/door

Definition

noun

main entrancefront gate/door

Measure word · 扇

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Wǒ men zài dà dà mén qián jiàn miàn ba.
Let's meet in front of the main gate.
大门。
Zhè shàn dà mén hěn gǔ lǎo.
This gate is very old.
大门。
Tā tuī kāi dà mén zǒu le jìn qù.
He pushed open the front door and walked in.

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

Big and door combine to mean the main entrance.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The form 大 is a picture of a person standing and facing forward, not of someone stretching their arms.

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 門; 门 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 門 pictures a gate as two door shapes side by side; the simplified 门 is a later shorthand.

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