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出门

chū mén

HSK 3.0 level 2 2-character word Traditional 出門

出门 (chū mén) means "to go out; leave home". It is an HSK 3.0 level 2 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 出门 means

1. to go out
2. to leave home
3. to go on a journey
4. away from home
5. (of a woman) to get married

The characters in 出门

• 出chūto go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield
• 门méngate; door; doorway; gateway; opening; valve; switch…

Example sentences

• 几点出门？
  What time are you leaving?
• 我出门了。
  I'm gone.
• 你出门了吗？
  Did you go out?
• 我没心情出门。
  I don't feel like going out.
• 你不应该出门。
  You ought not to go out.
• 我父亲出门了。
  My father is out.

Words starting with 出门

• 出门在外chū mén zài wàito be away from home; to live away from one's family

Words containing 出门

• 在家千日好，出门一时难zài jiā qiān rì hǎo , chū mén yī shí nánlit. at home, one can spend a thousand days in comfort, but spending a day away from home…
• 在家靠父母，出门靠朋友zài jiā kào fù mǔ , chū mén kào péng youone depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home…
• 好事不出门，恶事传千里hǎo shì bù chū mén , è shì chuán qiān lǐlit. good deeds do not go beyond the door, evil deeds spread a thousand miles…
• 秀才不出门，全知天下事xiù cai bù chū mén , quán zhī tiān xià shìa learned person need not leave his home to know what's going on in the world (idiom)
• 秀才不出门，能知天下事xiù cai bù chū mén , néng zhī tiān xià shìa learned person need not leave his home to know what's going on in the world (idiom)

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