屋门 (wū mén) — door of a room | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

door of a room

Measure word · 扇

屋门。
Qǐng bǎ wū mén guān shàng.
Please close the room door.
屋门。
Tā tuī kāi wū mén zǒu le jìn qù.
He pushed open the room door and walked in.
屋门。
wū mén Shàng tiē zhe yì zhāng zhǐ tiáo.
There is a note stuck on the room door.

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.

屋 names the room and 门 names the door, so it means the door of a room.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

𡉉

𡉉𡉉屋wū

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

屋 comes from 室, meaning room, with 𡉉 for sound; its upper part later changed into an unrelated shape.

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.