同門

Chinese

		like; same; similar like; same; similar; together; alike; with	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. (同門)		同	門
simp. (同门)		同	门

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tóngmén

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄇㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tung⁴ mun⁴
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): tâng-mn̂g / tâng-mûi

(Teochew, Peng'im): dang⁵ mung⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tóngmén
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄇㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tóngmén
  - Wade–Giles: tʻung²-mên²
  - Yale: túng-mén
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: torngmen
  - Palladius: тунмэнь (tunmɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ³⁵ mən³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: tung⁴ mun⁴
  - Yale: tùhng mùhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tung⁴ mun⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: tung⁴ mun⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ²¹ muːn²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tâng-mn̂g
  - Tâi-lô: tâng-mn̂g
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dangmngg
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /taŋ²³⁻³³ mŋ̍²³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /taŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ mŋ̍²⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /taŋ²⁴⁻²² mŋ̍²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tâng-mûi
  - Tâi-lô: tâng-muî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dangmuii
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /taŋ¹³⁻²² muĩ¹³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: dang⁵ mung⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tâng mûng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ muŋ⁵⁵/

Verb

同門

(literary) to study under the same teacher

Noun

同門

(literary) fellow disciple; classmate
(Southern Min) husbands of sisters

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 連襟 (“husbands of sisters”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		連襟
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	連襟兒, 一擔兒挑
	Taiwan	連襟
	Harbin	連橋兒, 連橋的, 連橋兒的, 一擔挑兒, 擔挑兒
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	連襟, 二喬, 兩喬
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	連襟
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	挑串
	Wanrong	挑擔
	Wanrong (Ronghe)	擔子
	Xi'an	挑擔, 兩挑擔
	Xuzhou	連襟
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	挑擔
	Lanzhou	挑擔
	Ürümqi	連襟, 挑擔
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	老挑, 挑擔子, 連襟
	Wuhan	連襟
	Guiyang	兩姨老, 連襟
	Liuzhou	老襟
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	連襟
	Yangzhou	連襟
	Hefei	連襟
Cantonese	Guangzhou	連襟, 老襟, 襟兄弟
	Hong Kong	老襟, 襟兄弟
	Dongguan	老襟, 襟兄弟
	Yangjiang	老襟
Gan	Nanchang	連襟
	Lichuan	姨夫
	Pingxiang	姨丈
Hakka	Meixian	連襟
Huizhou	Jixi	大小姨夫
Jin	Taiyuan	連襟
Jin	Xinzhou	連襟
Northern Min	Jian'ou	姨丈, 兩姨丈
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	同門
Southern Min	Xiamen	同門, 同門的
	Quanzhou	同門, 同門的, 大細仙
	Jinjiang	大細仙
	Zhangzhou	同門
	Zhao'an	同空丈
	Taipei	大細丈
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	大細仙
	Kaohsiung	大細仙, 大細輦, 同門的
	Yilan	大細仙
	Changhua (Lukang)	大細丈, 大細仙, 連襟
	Taichung	大細腎
	Tainan	同門的
	Hsinchu	大細丈
	Kinmen	楗的, 連襟
	Penghu (Magong)	同門
	Singapore (Hokkien)	同門
	Chaozhou	同門丈
	Raoping	姨丈
	Shantou	同門
	Jieyang	同門, 同門丈, 同郎丈
	Leizhou	那襟
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	老襟
Wu	Shanghai	連襟
	Suzhou	連襟
	Danyang	連襟, 拉弗斷
	Hangzhou	連襟
	Ningbo	連襟, 兩連襟
	Wenzhou	姨夫, 姨襟
	Jinhua	兩姨夫
Xiang	Changsha	連襟, 兩姨夫
	Loudi	姨夫
	Shuangfeng	姨夫

Derived terms

同門丈 / 同门丈
同門友 / 同门友
同門異戶 / 同门异户
禍福同門 / 祸福同门

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (同門):

→ Japanese: 同門(どうもん) (dōmon)
→ Korean: 동문(同門) (dongmun)
→ Vietnamese: đồng môn (同門)