过门

過門
guòmén
  1. to pass through a doorway
  2. (of a woman) to marry
  3. orchestral music interlude in an opera

CEDICT

  1. (Suzhounese, figurative) trick; knack; wit; know-how; way to get through a problem
  2. (music) interlude; transition
  3. (of a woman) to get married (into the husband's house)
  4. interlude; transition
  5. to get married (into the husband's house)
  6. trick; knack; wit; know-how; way to get through a problem

Wiktionary

  1. 经过门口。
  2. 俗称女子出嫁。
  3. 戏剧表演中，演唱中断时只有乐队单独演奏，称为「过门」。具有串场的作用。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

=1 过 guò
  1. to cross
  2. to go over
  3. to pass (time)
  4. to celebrate (a holiday)
  5. to live
  6. to get along
  7. excessively
  8. too-
=1 过 guo (experienced action marker)
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

Related entries

于归 yúguī (literary) (of a girl) to marry
出阁 chūgé (of a girl) to marry (literary)
婚 hūn
  1. to marry
  2. marriage
  3. wedding
  4. to take a wife
你结过婚吗？

Did you ever get married?

Source: Tatoeba

婚配 hūnpèi to marry
媾 gòu
  1. to marry
  2. to copulate
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