門前

See also: 门前

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	front, forepart; in front; past front, forepart; in front; past; former; previous; last; before; preceding; earlier; ago; future; time ahead; first; top; battlefront; to move forward
trad. (門前)		門	前
simp. (门前)		门	前
anagram		前門／前门

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ménqián

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄣˊ ㄑㄧㄢˊ
Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): mun⁴ cin⁴

(Taishan, Wiktionary): mon³ ten⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mùn-chhièn
Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁶men-zhi / ²men-zie₂

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ménqián
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄣˊ ㄑㄧㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: méncián
  - Wade–Giles: mên²-chʻien²
  - Yale: mén-chyán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: menchyan
  - Palladius: мэньцянь (mɛnʹcjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mən³⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: mun⁴ cin⁴
  - Yale: mùhn chìhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mun⁴ tsin⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: mun⁴ qin⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /muːn²¹ t͡sʰiːn²¹/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: mon³ ten⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ᵐbᵘɔn²² tʰen²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mùn-chhièn
  - Hakka Romanization System: mun^ˇ qien^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: mun² qian²
  - Sinological IPA: /mun¹¹ t͡sʰi̯en¹¹/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶men-zhi
  - MiniDict: men^去 zhi
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³men-xxi
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /mən²² ʑi⁴⁴/
- (Northern: Suzhou)
  - Wugniu: ²men-zie₂
  - MiniDict: men^平 zie^平
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /mən²² zɪ³³/

Noun

門前

at the door; at the gate; outside the door; outside the gate

Derived terms

各人自掃門前雪，休管他人瓦上霜 / 各人自扫门前雪，休管他人瓦上霜
各人自掃門前雪，莫管他家瓦上霜 / 各人自扫门前雪，莫管他家瓦上霜
各掃門前雪 / 各扫门前雪
孔夫子門前賣文章 / 孔夫子门前卖文章
寡婦門前是非多 / 寡妇门前是非多
自掃門前雪 / 自扫门前雪 (zì sǎo mén qián xuě)
門前清 / 门前清 (ménqiánqīng)
魯般門前掉大斧 / 鲁般门前掉大斧

Japanese

Kanji in this term
門	前
もん Grade: 2	ぜん Grade: 2
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) もんぜん [mòńzéń] (Heiban – [0])^[1]^[2]^[3]
(Tokyo) もんぜん [mòńzéꜜǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])^[2]
IPA^(key): [mõ̞nd͡zẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

門(もん)前(ぜん) • (monzen)

in front of a gate
- 1914, 夏目漱石 [Natsume Sōseki], chapter 26, in こゝろ [Kokoro], 下先生と遺書 [Sensei's Testament]:
  私(わたくし)は急(いそ)ぎ足(あし)に門(もん)前(ぜん)まで来(き)て、格(こう)子(し)をがらりと開(あ)けました。
  Watakushi wa isogiashi ni monzen made kite, kōshi o garari to akemashita.
  I rushed up to [in front of] the gate and opened the lattice with a clatter.

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (2016), NHK日本語発音アクセント新辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2020), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Eighth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN