前门

前門
qiánmén
  1. front door
  2. main entrance
  3. honest and upright approach (as opposed to 后门, back-door or under the counter)

CEDICT

front door; front gate

Wiktionary

  1. 屋舍正面所开的门。
  2. 北平市正阳门。

重編國語辭典

屋舍正面所开的门

維基詞典

Homographs

前门 Qiánmén Qianmen subway station on Beijing Subway Line 2

Examples

我们发现前门被锁上了。

We found the front door locked.

Source: Tatoeba

我听到前门的门铃响了。

I heard the front doorbell ring.

Source: Tatoeba

前门有人，你去看看是谁。

Someone is at the front door. Go and see who it is.

Source: Tatoeba

Entry Composition

1 前 qián
  1. front
  2. forward
  3. ahead
  4. first
  5. top (followed by a number)
  6. future
  7. ago
  8. before
  9. BC (e.g. 前293年)
  10. former
  11. formerly
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

前门打虎，后门打狼 qiánméndǎhǔ,hòuméndǎláng to beat a tiger from the front door, only to have a wolf come in at the back (idiom); fig. facing one problem after another
前门拒虎，后门进狼 qiánménjùhǔ,hòuménjìnláng to beat a tiger from the front door, only to have a wolf come in at the back (idiom); fig. facing one problem after another

Related entries

会门 huìmén
  1. main entrance
  2. secret society
正门 zhèngmén
  1. main entrance
  2. main gate
  3. portal
我把正门漆成蓝色了。

I painted the gate blue.

Source: Tatoeba