北門

See also: 北门

Chinese

		north	opening; door; gate opening; door; gate; doorway; gateway; valve; switch; way to do something; knack; family; house; (religious) sect; school (of thought); class; category; (taxonomy) phylum or division
trad. (北門)		北	門
simp. (北门)		北	门

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): běimén

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄟˇ ㄇㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bak¹ mun⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pet-mùn
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): pak-mn̂g / pak-mûi

(Teochew, Peng'im): bag⁴ mung⁵ / bag⁴ meng⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: běimén
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄟˇ ㄇㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: běimén
  - Wade–Giles: pei³-mên²
  - Yale: běi-mén
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: beeimen
  - Palladius: бэймэнь (bɛjmɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /peɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ mən³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bak¹ mun⁴
  - Yale: bāk mùhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bak⁷ mun⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: beg¹ mun⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐk̚⁵ muːn²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pet-mùn
  - Hakka Romanization System: bed^ˋ mun^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: bed⁵ mun²
  - Sinological IPA: /pet̚² mun¹¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pak-mn̂g
  - Tâi-lô: pak-mn̂g
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pakmngg
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pak̚⁵⁻²⁴ mŋ̍²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pak̚³²⁻⁴ mŋ̍²³/
  - IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /pak̚³²⁻⁴ mŋ̍²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Yilan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pak-mûi
  - Tâi-lô: pak-muî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pakmuii
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pak̚³²⁻⁵ muĩ¹³/
  - IPA (Yilan): /pak̚²⁻⁵ muĩ²⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: bag⁴ mung⁵ / bag⁴ meng⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pak mûng / pak mṳ̂ng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pak̚²⁻⁴ muŋ⁵⁵/, /pak̚²⁻⁴ mɯŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

北門

(archaic) north gate of a walled city

Derived terms

北門之嘆 / 北门之叹
北門南牙 / 北门南牙
北門鎖鑰 / 北门锁钥

Proper noun

北門

(～區) Beimen (a district of Tainan, Taiwan)
(～社區, formerly ～村) Beimen (a residential community in Dadeng, Xiang'an district, Xiamen, Fujian, China, formerly a village)
(～村) Beimen (a village in Tancheng, Pingtan, Fuzhou, Fujian, China)
Northgate (a neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States)

Coordinate terms

東門／东门 (dōngmén)
南門／南门 (nánmén)
西門／西门 (xīmén)