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Mythic Mandarin

敲门 (qiāo mén): meaning and stroke order

敲门 (qiāo mén) means to knock on a door.

敲门

Simplified
敲门
Traditional
敲門
Pinyin
qiāo mén

Stroke order of 敲门

敲

  • qiāo to hit; to strike
  • 14 strokes

Stroke by stroke

门

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 敲门

  1. qiāo mén Traditional 敲門
    • to knock on a door

Radicals of the characters

敲
Radical 攴 (Kangxi radical 66) · 14 strokes · 高 on the left, 攴 on the right
门
Radical 门 (Kangxi radical 169) in its simplified form · 3 strokes

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.

敲门 in our stories

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  • “我们在这儿买菜、聊天、互相照顾，谁两天没来，大家就会去他家敲门。拆了它，这些就都没了。”

    wǒmen zài zhèr mǎi cài liáotiān hùxiāng zhàogù shéi liǎng tiān méi lái dàjiā jiù huì qù tā jiā qiāomén chāi le tā zhèxiē jiù dōu méi le

    "We buy vegetables, chat and look after each other here. If someone doesn't come for two days, people go and knock on their door. Tear it down and all that is gone."

    From the story The market hearing HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 敲门

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).