HSK 3.0 Level 2 · Places

出门 chūmén “to go out” in Chinese

Traditional 出門

What 出门 means

  1. to go out
  2. to leave home
  3. to go on a journey
  4. away from home
  5. (of a woman) to get married

How to say 出门

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale出chū1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale门mén2nd tone, rising

出门 in a sentence

  1. 我天黑后不喜欢出门。

    Wǒ tiānhēi hòu bù xǐhuan chūmén.

    I don’t like going out after dark.

    Sentence #333762 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我出门的时候，你来了。

    Wǒ chūmén de shíhou, nǐ lái le.

    You came just as I was going out.

    Sentence #346741 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 几点出门？

    Jǐ diǎn chūmén?

    What time are you leaving?

    Sentence #13519631 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 出门 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 出 (chū) with each of its parts in a different colour
出chūto go out; to come out
  • 屮sprout · chè
  • 凵open box · kǎn

Memory aidA foot stepping up out of an opening 凵: to go out.

The character 门 (mén) drawn as one shape
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.

How to write 出门

出 5 strokes · 门 3 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

出门 (chūmén) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 出门 (chūmén). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 出门

Words with 出

出租车chūzūchē · taxi出chū · to go out出国chūguó · to go abroad出来chūlái · to come out出去chūqù · to go out出院chūyuàn · to leave hospital出生chūshēng · to be born出现chūxiàn · to appear演出yǎnchū · to act (in a play)出差chūchāi · to go on an official or business trip

Words with 门

门mén · door门口ménkǒu · doorway门票ménpiào · entrance ticket (for an attraction专门zhuānmén · specially部门bùmén · department热门rèmén · popular窍门qiàomén · knack

More words: Places & Getting Around

这里zhèlǐ · here车站chēzhàn · rail station出国chūguó · to go abroad出来chūlái · to come out出去chūqù · to go out打车dǎchē · to take a taxi (in town)公交车gōngjiāochē · public transport vehicle过来guòlái · to come over

FAQs

出门 (chūmén) means “to go out” or “to leave home”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word.
Say it chūmén: chū with a 1st tone, then mén with a 2nd 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, 出门 is written 出門. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chumen with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 出门 from the suggestions. Typing chumen into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
出门 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.