转门 (zhuàn mén) — revolving door | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

revolving door

Measure word · 扇

转门。
Qǐng cóng zhuàn mén jìn rù dà lóu.
Please enter the building through the revolving door.
转门。
Zhè zuò zhuàn mén yí cì zhǐ néng tōng guò yí gè rén.
This revolving door can only let one person through at a time.
转门，。
Jiǔ diàn rù kǒu chù yǒu yí shàn zhuàn mén, jìn chū hěn fāng biàn.
There is a revolving door at the hotel entrance, making it very convenient to go in and out.

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.

The sense of 转 turning is joined to 门 door to name a door that revolves.

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.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 轉; 转 is its simplified writing.

車專轉

Meaning part形符xíngfú

車車jūcarriage

Sound part声符shēngfú

專

專zhuān轉zhuǎn

Same sound today

The traditional form 轉 combines 車, a carriage, with 專 as a sound part; the simplified 转 is a later shorthand.

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.