門外

See also: 门外

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	outside; in addition; foreign outside; in addition; foreign; external
trad. (門外)		門	外
simp. (门外)		门	外

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ménwài

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄣˊ ㄨㄞˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mun⁴ ngoi⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mùn-ngoi
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): mn̂g-gōa

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ménwài
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄣˊ ㄨㄞˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ménwài
  - Wade–Giles: mên²-wai⁴
  - Yale: mén-wài
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: menway
  - Palladius: мэньвай (mɛnʹvaj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mən³⁵ waɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: mun⁴ ngoi⁶
  - Yale: mùhn ngoih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mun⁴ ngoi⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: mun⁴ ngoi⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /muːn²¹ ŋɔːi̯²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mùn-ngoi
  - Hakka Romanization System: mun^ˇ ngoi
  - Hagfa Pinyim: mun² ngoi⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /mun¹¹ ŋoi̯⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mn̂g-gōa
  - Tâi-lô: mn̂g-guā
  - Phofsit Daibuun: mnggoa
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /mŋ̍²⁴⁻²² ɡua²²/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /mŋ̍²⁴⁻²² ɡua⁴¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /mŋ̍¹³⁻²² ɡua²²/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /mŋ̍²⁴⁻¹¹ ɡua³³/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /mŋ̍²³⁻³³ ɡua³³/

Adjective

門外

outside the door
我就在門外，給我開門。 [MSC, trad.]
我就在门外，给我开门。 [MSC, simp.]
Wǒ jiù zài ménwài, gěi wǒ kāimén. [Pinyin]
Open the door for me; I'm outside.

Derived terms

門外漢 / 门外汉 (ménwàihàn)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
門	外
もん Grade: 2	がい Grade: 2
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) もんがい [móꜜǹgàì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]^[2]^[3]
IPA^(key): [mõ̞ŋɡa̠i]

Noun

門(もん)外(がい) • (mongai) ^{←もんぐわい (mongwai)^?}

outside a gate
outside one's area of expertise

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ 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