過門

过门
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. 經過門口。
  2. 俗稱女子出嫁。
  3. 戲劇表演中，演唱中斷時只有樂隊單獨演奏，稱為「過門」。具有串場的作用。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

=1 過 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 過 guo (experienced action marker)
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

Related entries

于歸 yúguī (literary) (of a girl) to marry
出閣 chūgé (of a girl) to marry (literary)
婚 hūn
  1. to marry
  2. marriage
  3. wedding
  4. to take a wife
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婚配 hūnpèi to marry
媾 gòu
  1. to marry
  2. to copulate
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