閉門
Chinese
to close; stop up; shut to close; stop up; shut; obstruct |
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. (閉門) | 閉 | 門 | |
| simp. (闭门) | 闭 | 门 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
- Hanyu Pinyin: bìmén
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ ㄇㄣˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: bìmén
- Wade–Giles: pi4-mên2
- Yale: bì-mén
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bihmen
- Palladius: бимэнь (bimɛnʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pi⁵¹ mən³⁵/
- Homophones:
[Show/Hide] 篳門 / 筚门
閉門 / 闭门
- (Standard Chinese)
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: bai3 mun4
- Yale: bai mùhn
- Cantonese Pinyin: bai3 mun4
- Guangdong Romanization: bei3 mun4
- Sinological IPA (key): /pɐi̯³³ muːn²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pì-mn̂g
- Tâi-lô: pì-mn̂g
- Phofsit Daibuun: piemngg
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /pi²¹⁻⁴¹ mŋ̍²³/
- IPA (Taipei): /pi¹¹⁻⁵³ mŋ̍²⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
Verb
閉⫽門 (verb-object)
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 關門 (“to close the door”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 關門, 閉門 | |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 關門 |
| Singapore | 關門 | |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Luoyang | 關門兒 |
| Xining | 關門 | |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 關門 |
| Guiyang | 關門 | |
| Liuzhou | 關門 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 閂門 |
| Hong Kong | 閂門 | |
| Taishan | 閂門 | |
| Dongguan | 閂門 | |
| Gan | Lichuan | 關門 |
| Hakka | Huizhou (Huicheng; Bendihua) | 閂門 |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 關門 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 關門 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 關門 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 關門 |
| Southern Min | Singapore (Hokkien) | 關門 |
| Manila (Hokkien) | 關門 | |
| Singapore (Teochew) | 關門 | |
| Singapore (Hainanese) | 關門 | |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 關門 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 關門 |
| Danyang | 關門 | |
| Ningbo | 關門 | |
| Jinhua | 關門 | |
| Xiang | Loudi | 關門 |
- (to seclude oneself):
- 屏居 (bǐngjū) (literary)
- 幽居 (yōujū) (literary)
- 幽棲 / 幽栖 (yōuqī) (literary)
- 杜門 / 杜门 (dùmén) (literary, figurative)
- 臥 / 卧 (wò) (literary)
- 臥雲 / 卧云 (wòyún) (literary)
- 豹隱 / 豹隐 (bàoyǐn) (literary)
- 辭世 / 辞世 (císhì) (literary)
- 退居 (tuìjū) (literary)
- 退隱 / 退隐 (tuìyǐn) (of an official, renowned person)
- 遁世 (dùnshì) (literary)
- 遁跡 / 遁迹 (dùnjì) (literary)
- 避世 (bìshì)
- 隱居 / 隐居 (yǐnjū)
- 隱逸 / 隐逸 (yǐnyì) (literary)