柴門

柴门
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. 以樹枝、木幹做成的門。形容樸素簡陋的居所。唐．王維〈輞川閒居贈裴秀才迪〉詩：「倚杖柴門外，臨風聽暮蟬。」《三國演義．第三七回》：「玄德來到莊前，下馬親叩柴門，一童出問。」也作「柴扉」。
  2. 杜門、閉門。

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

我們能否指出一種語言誕生的確切日期？你或許會這樣說：「真是個奇怪的問題！」然而，這樣的日期確實存在：7 月 26 日，世界語日。1887 年的這一天，路德維克萊澤柴門霍夫在華沙出版了一本關於「國際語言」的小冊子。

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 門 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

柴門小戶 cháiménxiǎohù
  1. woodcutter's cottage (idiom); poor person's hovel
  2. fig. my humble house