大门

Character by character

• 大dà3 strokesHSK 1big, great, vast, large, high
• 门mén3 strokesHSK 1 traditional 門gate, door, entrance, opening

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 大门. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 大dàHSK 1

  big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 姐); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

• 大家dà jiāHSK 2

  everyone; influential family; great expert

• 门ménHSK 1

  gate; door; gateway; doorway; opening; valve; switch; way to do something; knack; family; house; (religious) sect; school (of thought); class; category; phylum or division (taxonomy); classifier for large guns; classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology; (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

• 大学dà xuéHSK 1

  university; college

• 部门bù ménHSK 3

  department; branch; section; division

• 伟大wěi dàHSK 3

  huge; great; grand; worthy of the greatest admiration; important (contribution etc)

• 长大zhǎng dàHSK 2

  to grow up

• 巨大jù dàHSK 4

  huge; immense; very large; tremendous; gigantic; enormous

• 大概dà gàiHSK 3

  roughly; probably; rough; approximate; about; general idea

• 重大zhòng dàHSK 3

  great; important; major; significant

• 大量dà liàngHSK 2

  great amount; large quantity; bulk; numerous; generous; magnanimous

• 强大qiáng dàHSK 3

  large; formidable; powerful; strong

• 大部分dà bù fenHSK 2

  in large part; the greater part; the majority

• 大多数dà duō shùHSK 2

  (great) majority

• 大约dà yuēHSK 3

  approximately; probably

• 专门zhuān ménHSK 3

  specialist; specialized; customized

• 大人dà renHSK 2

  adult; grownup; title of respect toward superiors

• 大会dà huìHSK 4

  general assembly; general meeting; convention

• 门口mén kǒuHSK 1

  doorway; gate

• 大赛dà sàiHSK 6

  grand contest

• 出门chū ménHSK 2

  to go out; to leave home; to go on a journey; away from home; (of a woman) to get married

• 大型dà xíngHSK 4

  large; large-scale

• 大师dà shīHSK 6

  great master; master

• 老大lǎo dàHSK 7

  old age; very; eldest child in a family; leader of a group; boss; captain of a boat; leader of a criminal gang