柴门

柴門
cháimén
  1. lit. woodcutter's family
  2. humble background
  3. poor family background

CEDICT

  1. (literary) to close the door
  2. (literary, figurative) poverty-stricken family
  3. poverty-stricken family
  4. to close the door

Wiktionary

  1. 以树枝、木干做成的门。形容朴素简陋的居所。唐．王维〈辋川閒居赠裴秀才迪〉诗：「倚杖柴门外，临风听暮蝉。」《三国演义．第三七回》：「玄德来到庄前，下马亲叩柴门，一童出问。」也作「柴扉」。
  2. 杜门、闭门。

重編國語辭典

Examples

柴门霍夫是世界语的创造者。

Zamenhof is the creator of Esperanto.

Source: Tatoeba

世界语的创始人柴门霍夫是一个眼科医生。

Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto, was an ophthalmologist.

Source: Tatoeba

我们能否指出一种语言诞生的确切日期？你或许会这样说：「真是个奇怪的问题！」然而，这样的日期确实存在：7 月 26 日，世界语日。1887 年的这一天，路德维克莱泽柴门霍夫在华沙出版了一本关于「国际语言」的小册子。

Is it possible to indicate a date on which a language came into life? "What a question!" you will be inclined to say. And yet such a date exists: the 26th of July, the Day of Esperanto. On this day in 1887 appeared in Warsaw a booklet by Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof about the "International Language".

Source: Tatoeba

Entry Composition

1 柴 chái
  1. firewood
  2. lean (of meat)
  3. thin (of a person)
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

柴门小户 cháiménxiǎohù
  1. woodcutter's cottage (idiom); poor person's hovel
  2. fig. my humble house