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CHINESE CHARACTER
- Numbered pinyin
- men4
- English meanings
- stuffy, shut indoors, to smother, to cover tightly, bored, depressed, melancholy, sealed, airtight, tightly closed
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BUILDING BLOCKS
Structure & components
Enclosed from above structure
Enclosed from above arrangement: outside 门; inside 心.
Meaning & sound clues
心 is identified as the meaning component, associated with “heart”.
门 is identified as the sound component (mén). Its pronunciation may differ from the modern pronunciation of 闷.
This breakdown describes the written shape. A component's meaning does not always explain the meaning of the whole character.
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Characters with the same pinyin, regardless of tone.
pluralizer after pronouns and nouns of persons
depressed; bored
door; gate
door
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Related words
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- 沉闷
- 烦闷
- 纳闷儿