Sentence #12422354 from Tatoeba · translation adapted
How 门口 is built
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门méngate; door; doorway; gateway; opening
门 is a single shape of 3 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.
Memory aidSimplified from 門, drawn from a gate with two doors.
口kǒumouth
冂down box · jiōng
一one · yī
Memory aidDrawn from an open mouth.
How to write 门口
门 3 strokes · 口 3 strokes
Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.
Stroke order chart for 门口 (ménkǒu). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
门口 (ménkǒu) means “doorway” or “gate”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word.
Say it ménkǒu: mén with a 2nd tone, then kǒu with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 门口 is written 門口. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 个 (gè). For example, one doorway is 一个门口 (yí ge ménkǒu).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type menkou with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 门口 from the suggestions. Typing menkou into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
门口 is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 2 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.
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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.
门mén2nd tone, rising
口kǒu3rd tone, dipping
