一门

一門
yīmén
  1. (dialectal) continuously; constantly
  2. (literary) a door
  3. (literary) a single source; a single origin
  4. (literary) a way; a means
  5. a cannon
  6. a door
  7. a family; a clan
  8. a kind; the same kind
  9. a single source; a single origin
  10. a skill
  11. a style; a faction; a denomination
  12. a subject of study
  13. a way; a means
  14. an event or occurrence
  15. continuously; constantly
  16. the same school or teacher

Wiktionary

Examples

翻译是一门学问。

Translation is a scholarly discipline.

Translation is a kind of special skill.

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掌握一门外语很难。

Mastering a foreign language is difficult.

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汤姆只会说一门语言。

Tom only speaks one language.

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学一门外语是很难的。

It's difficult to learn a foreign language.

It's hard to learn a foreign language.

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学会一门外语不容易。

It is not easy to learn a foreign language.

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Entry Composition

1 一 yī
  1. one
  2. single
  3. a (article)
  4. as soon as
  5. entire; whole; all; throughout
  6. "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
  7. also pr. yāo for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
=2 门 Mén surname Men
=2 门 mén
  1. gate
  2. door
  3. gateway
  4. doorway
  5. opening
  6. valve
  7. switch
  8. way to do something
  9. knack
  10. family
  11. house
  12. (religious) sect
  13. school (of thought)
  14. class
  15. category
  16. phylum or division (taxonomy)
  17. classifier for large guns
  18. classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology
  19. (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

classifiers: 扇, 個

Containing this entry

一门式 yīménshì one-stop (service, shop etc)
一门心思 yīménxīnsi to set one's heart on sth (idiom)