门 mén in a sentence
Door (gate - know-how - category - mw for courses)
门 (mén) means Door (gate - know-how - category - mw for courses). Below are 24 of the 133 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他在 门 外等我。
Tā zài mén wài děng wǒ.
He is waiting for me outside the door.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 门
车就停在 门 口。
Chē jiù tíng zài ménkǒu.
The car is parked right by the door.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 停
走的时候请关 门 。
Zǒu de shíhou qǐng guān mén.
Please close the door when you leave.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 关
请先敲 门 再进来。
Qǐng xiān qiāo mén zài jìnlái.
Please knock before coming in.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 敲
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From the graded readers
我打开 门 ，房间里很黑。
wǒ dǎkāi mén, fángjiān lǐ hěn hēi.
I opened the door and the room was dark.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · An Anniversary Surprise
可是我们刚出 门 ，天就黑了。
kěshì wǒmen gāng chū mén, tiān jiù hēi le / liǎo / liào.
But the moment we stepped out, the sky went dark.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · A Rainy Day
牛奶在最里边，水果在 门 旁边。
niúnǎi zài zuì lǐ biān, shuǐguǒ zài mén pángbiān.
The milk was at the very back and the fruit was by the door.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · At the Supermarket
我很着急，没吃早饭就出 门 了。
wǒ hěn zhāo / zhaó / zhe / zhù / zhuó jí, méi chī zǎofàn jiù chū mén le / liǎo / liào.
I panicked and left without breakfast.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · Late for Work
我敲了 门 ，开 门 的是一位老先生。
wǒ qiāo le / liǎo / liào mén, kāimén de / dì shì yī wèi lǎo xiānsheng.
I knocked, and an elderly man opened the door.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Neighbour Upstairs
门 前的那棵树比我记得的大了很多。
ménqián de / dì nà / nèi kē shù bǐ wǒ jìde de / dì dà le / liǎo / liào hěnduō.
The tree in front of the door was much bigger than I remembered.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Going Back Home
我最后还是出 门 了，只跑了十五分钟。
wǒ zuìhòu háishì chū mén le / liǎo / liào, zhī pǎo le / liǎo / liào shíwǔ fēnzhōng.
In the end I went out anyway, and only ran fifteen minutes.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running
到了她家 门 口，她一定要请我进去喝茶。
dàole tā jiā ménkǒu, tā yīdìngyào qǐng wǒ jìnqù hē / hè chá.
At her door she insisted I come in for tea.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Helping a Stranger
From the travel phrasebook
我在 门 口等。
Wǒ zài ménkǒu děng.
I'm waiting at the entrance.
Travel phrasebook · Taxis and ride-hailing
From the grammar library
门 appears in 133 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 门
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 门
How is 门 used in a sentence?
This page shows 133 sentences using 门 (mén, "Door (gate - know-how - category - mw for courses)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 门 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 门 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 门 an HSK word?
Yes — 门 is on the official HSK 2 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 2 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 门?
The dictionary page for 门 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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