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

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• 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

1. 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
	Singapore	門口
Cantonese	Hong Kong	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
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

Derived terms

• 出門口 / 出门口 (chū ménkǒu)
• 門口攝影機 / 门口摄影机