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Bushu (Radical) Info: 門 (もん) – gate

Henshall Mnemonic: heaven's gates are impassable barrier: sent away

Levels: JLPT N3 | JLPT 2 (old) | Grade 4
Frequency: #70 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:

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JLPT N5 Words

• 玄関   [げんかん]
  (n) entranceway; entry hall   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N4 Words

• 関係   [かんけい]
  (n,vs) relation; connection   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N3 Words

• 関する   [かんする]
  (vs-s) to concern; to be related   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 関心   [かんしん]
  (n) concern; interest   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 機関   [きかん]
  (n) organ; mechanism; facility; engine   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 関連   [かんれん]
  (n) relation; connection; relevance   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N2 Words

• 税関   [ぜいかん]
  (n) customs house   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 交通機関   [こうつうきかん]
  (n) transportation facilities   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 関西   [かんさい]
  Kansai (south-western half of Japan, including Osaka)   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 機関車   [きかんしゃ]
  (n) locomotive; engine   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N1 Words

• 関税   [かんぜい]
  (n) customs; duty; tariff   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 関与   [かんよ]
  (n,vs) participation; taking part in; participating in; being concerned in   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT

• 関脇   [せきわけ]
  (n) sumo junior champion   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 大関   [おおぜき]
  (n) sumo wrestler of second highest rank   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 相関   [そうかん]
  (n,vs) correlation; interrelation   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 相関関係   [そうかんかんけい]
  correlation   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 通関   [つうかん]
  (n,vs) customs clearance   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 無関係   [むかんけい]
  (adj-na,adj-no,n) unrelated   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 無関心   [むかんしん]
  (adj-na,n) apathetic; indifferent   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 難関   [なんかん]
  (n) barrier   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 関   [せき]
  (n,n-suf) barrier; gate   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 関わる   [かかわる]
  (v5r) to concern oneself in; to have to do with; to affect; to influence; to stick to (opinions)   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 利害関係   [りがいかんけい]
  interests   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 関係者   [かんけいしゃ]
  (n) authorized people; person(s) concerned   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 関取   [せきとり]
  (n) ranking sumo wrestler in the makuuchi (senior-grade) or juryo (junior-grade) divisions   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 人間関係   [にんげんかんけい]
  human relations   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 関心事   [かんしんじ]
  (n) matter of concern and interest   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 連関   [れんかん]
  (n) connection; relation; linkage   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 報道機関   [ほうどうきかん]
  information media; press; news organs   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 機関紙   [きかんし]
  (n) bulletin; (party) organ   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 関節   [かんせつ]
  (n) joints (knee joint, elbow joint, etc)   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 行政機関   [ぎょうせいきかん]
  administrative organ; administrative body   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 機関銃   [きかんじゅう]
  (n) machine gun   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 関知   [かんち]
  (n,vs) concern; business   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 金融機関   [きんゆうきかん]
  (n) financial institutions; banking facilities   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 関門   [かんもん]
  (n) barrier; gateway   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Find more details for 関 at jisho.org, Yookoso! or WWWJDIC

Acknowledgments

The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.

NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.

The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.

Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.

The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.

If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.