門口

See also: 门口

Chinese

		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	mouth; (a measure word, for people, livestock or utensils)
trad. (門口)		門	口
simp. (门口)		门	口

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ménkǒu

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄣˊ ㄎㄡˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mun⁴ hau²
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): mùn-héu

(Hailu, HRS): mun heu^ˊ
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): mn̂g-kháu / mûi-kháu

(Teochew, Peng'im): mung⁵ kao² / meng⁵ kao²
Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁶men-kheu₅ / ²men-khe₃

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ménkǒu
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄣˊ ㄎㄡˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ménkǒu
  - Wade–Giles: mên²-kʻou³
  - Yale: mén-kǒu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: menkoou
  - Palladius: мэнькоу (mɛnʹkou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mən³⁵ kʰoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: mun⁴ hau²
  - Yale: mùhn háu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mun⁴ hau²
  - Guangdong Romanization: mun⁴ heo²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /muːn²¹ hɐu̯³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mùn-héu
  - Hakka Romanization System: mun^ˇ heu^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: mun² heu³
  - Sinological IPA: /mun¹¹ heu̯³¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: mun heu^ˊ
  - Sinological IPA: /mun⁵⁵ heu²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mn̂g-kháu
  - Tâi-lô: mn̂g-kháu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: mngqao
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /mŋ̍²³⁻³³ kʰau⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /mŋ̍²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰau⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /mŋ̍²⁴⁻²² kʰau⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /mŋ̍²⁴⁻²² kʰau⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mûi-kháu
  - Tâi-lô: muî-kháu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: mui'qao
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /muĩ¹³⁻²² kʰau⁵³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: mung⁵ kao² / meng⁵ kao²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mûng kháu / mṳ̂ng kháu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /muŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ kʰau⁵²/, /mɯŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ kʰau⁵²/

Note: mung5 kao2 - Chaozhou.

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶men-kheu₅
  - MiniDict: men^去 kheu^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³men-kheu₂
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /mən²² kʰɤ⁴⁴/
- (Northern: Jiaxing)
  - Wugniu: ²men-khe₃
  - MiniDict: men^平 khe^上
  - Sinological IPA (Jiaxing): /mən¹³ kʰe⁵³/

Noun

門口

doorway; entrance; gate (Classifier: 個／个)
一小群人站在門口，悄悄地交談著。 [MSC, trad.]
一小群人站在门口，悄悄地交谈着。 [MSC, simp.]
Yī xiǎo qún rén zhàn zài ménkǒu, qiāoqiāo de jiāotánzhe. [Pinyin]
A small group of people stand about by the gate, talking quietly.

你看到學校門口的告示了嗎？ [MSC, trad.]
你看到学校门口的告示了吗？ [MSC, simp.]
Nǐ kàndào xuéxiào ménkǒu de gàoshì le ma? [Pinyin]
Did you see the notice at the school gate?

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 門口 (“doorway; entrance”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		門口
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	門口
Northeastern Mandarin	Singapore	門口
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	門口
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	門口, 門口兒
Southwestern Mandarin	Guilin	門口
Cantonese	Hong Kong	門口
Gan	Pingxiang	門口
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	門口
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	門口
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	門口
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	門口
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	門口
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	門口
Huizhou	Jixi	門口
Southern Min	Xiamen	門跤口, 門喙口
	Quanzhou	門跤口, 門喙口
	Zhangzhou	門跤口, 門喙口
	Tainan	門跤口
	Jieyang	門跤, 門跤口
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	門喙
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	門口
Wu	Shanghai	門口, 門口頭
	Hangzhou	門口頭
	Ningbo	門口, 門口頭
	Wenzhou	門口頭兒
	Jinhua	門口, 門口頭

Derived terms

出門口 / 出门口 (chū ménkǒu)
門口攝影機 / 门口摄影机

Japanese

Kanji in this term
門	口
かど Grade: 2	くち > ぐち Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ka̠do̞ɡɯ̟t͡ɕi]

Noun

門(かど)口(ぐち) • (kadoguchi)

entrance