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開門 means “to open a door,” “opening gate” or figuratively, “to open for business.”
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your 開門 search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
開門 开门 see styles |
kāi mén kai1 men2 k`ai men kai men kaimon かいもん |
More info & calligraphy: Open Door(n,vs,vi) opening gate opens the gate |
半開門 半开门 see styles |
bàn kāi mén ban4 kai1 men2 pan k`ai men pan kai men |
half-open door; fig. prostitute |
開門炮 开门炮 see styles |
kāi mén pào kai1 men2 pao4 k`ai men p`ao kai men pao |
firecrackers set off at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day (a Chinese tradition) |
開門砲 开门炮 see styles |
kāi mén pào kai1 men2 pao4 k`ai men p`ao kai men pao |
firecrackers to open the door on the New Year |
開門紅 开门红 see styles |
kāi mén hóng kai1 men2 hong2 k`ai men hung kai men hung |
a good beginning |
雙開門 双开门 see styles |
shuāng kāi mén shuang1 kai1 men2 shuang k`ai men shuang kai men |
double door |
半開門兒 半开门儿 see styles |
bàn kāi mén r ban4 kai1 men2 r5 pan k`ai men r pan kai men r |
erhua variant of 半開門|半开门[ban4 kai1 men2] |
開門揖盜 开门揖盗 see styles |
kāi mén yī dào kai1 men2 yi1 dao4 k`ai men i tao kai men i tao |
leaving the door open invites the thief (idiom); to invite disaster by giving evildoers a free hand |
開門見山 开门见山 see styles |
kāi mén jiàn shān kai1 men2 jian4 shan1 k`ai men chien shan kai men chien shan |
lit. to open the door and see the mountain; fig. to get right to the point (idiom) |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Open Door | 開門 开门 | kai mon / kaimon | kāi mén / kai1 men2 / kai men / kaimen | k`ai men / kaimen / kai men |
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. |
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All of our calligraphy wall scrolls are handmade.
When the calligrapher finishes creating your artwork, it is taken to my art mounting workshop in Beijing where a wall scroll is made by hand from a combination of silk, rice paper, and wood.
After we create your wall scroll, it takes at least two weeks for air mail delivery from Beijing to you.
Allow a few weeks for delivery. Rush service speeds it up by a week or two for $10!
When you select your calligraphy, you'll be taken to another page where you can choose various custom options.
The wall scroll that Sandy is holding in this picture is a "large size"
single-character wall scroll.
We also offer custom wall scrolls in small, medium, and an even-larger jumbo size.
Professional calligraphers are getting to be hard to find these days.
Instead of drawing characters by hand, the new generation in China merely type roman letters into their computer keyboards and pick the character that they want from a list that pops up.
There is some fear that true Chinese calligraphy may become a lost art in the coming years. Many art institutes in China are now promoting calligraphy programs in hopes of keeping this unique form
of art alive.
Even with the teachings of a top-ranked calligrapher in China, my calligraphy will never be good enough to sell. I will leave that to the experts.
The same calligrapher who gave me those lessons also attracted a crowd of thousands and a TV crew as he created characters over 6-feet high. He happens to be ranked as one of the top 100 calligraphers in all of China. He is also one of very few that would actually attempt such a feat.
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