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Mythic Mandarin

门神 (mén shén): meaning and stroke order

门神 (mén shén) means door god.

门神

Simplified
门神
Traditional
門神
Pinyin
mén shén

Stroke order of 门神

门

  • Mén surname Men
  • mén gate; door
  • 3 strokes
  • Traditional form: 門

Stroke by stroke

神

  • Shén God
  • shén god; deity; supernatural; magical; mysterious
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 门神

  1. mén shén Traditional 門神
    • door god

Radicals of the characters

门
Radical 门 (Kangxi radical 169) in its simplified form · 3 strokes
神
Radical 示 (Kangxi radical 113) · 10 strokes · 礻 on the left, 申 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

门神 in our stories

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  • 张别古又羞又急，回去问瓦盆，盆里的声音委屈地说：“大堂门口有门神，我一个冤魂，怎么敢进去？”

    Zhāng Biégǔ yòu xiū yòu jí huíqu wèn wǎpén pén lǐ de shēngyīn wěiqu de shuō dàtáng ménkǒu yǒu ménshén wǒ yí gè yuānhún zěnme gǎn jìnqu

    Ashamed and anxious, Zhang Biegu went back and asked the basin. The voice said plaintively, "There are door gods at the court entrance. How would a wronged ghost dare go in?"

    From the story The tale of the black basin HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 门神

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).