玉門

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Chinese

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jade
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
 
trad. (玉門)
simp. (玉门)
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Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (31) (4)
Final () (8) (55)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division () III I
Fanqie
Baxter ngjowk mwon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ŋɨok̚/ /muən/
Pan
Wuyun
/ŋiok̚/ /muon/
Shao
Rongfen
/ŋiok̚/ /muən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ŋuawk̚/ /mwən/
Li
Rong
/ŋiok̚/ /muən/
Wang
Li
/ŋĭwok̚/ /muən/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ŋi̯wok̚/ /muən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
mén
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
juk6 mun4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
mén
Middle
Chinese
‹ ngjowk › ‹ mwon ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ŋ](r)ok/ (< uvular?) /*mˁə[r]/
English jade gate, door

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 15971 8960
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋoɡ/ /*mɯːn/

Noun

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玉門

  1. (Classical, literal) door decorated with jade
  2. (Classical, figurative) palace
  3. (Classical, figurative) vulva

Synonyms

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  • (palace):
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Proper noun

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玉門

  1. () Yumen (a county-level city in Jiuquan, Gansu, China)
  2. (~關) Yumen Pass (pass in Gansu province, China)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (玉門):
  • Japanese: (ぎょく)(もん) (gyokumon)
  • Korean: 옥문(玉門) (ongmun)

Japanese

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Kanji in this term
ぎょく
Grade: 1
もん
Grade: 2
on'yomi

Noun

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(ぎょく)(もん) (gyokumon

  1. beautifully decorated gate
  2. (euphemistic) female genitalia
    Synonym: 女陰 (jo'in)

Proper noun

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(ぎょく)(もん) (Gyokumon

  1. Yumen (a city in Gansu, China)