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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 临门

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
临门 lín mén - to arrive home
- facing one's home
- home-coming
- (soccer) facing the goalmouth

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 47,359 30,727 19,032

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
lín- to face
- to overlook
- to arrive
- to be (just) about to
- just before
mén- surname Men
mén- gate
- door
- CL:扇[shan4]
- gateway
- doorway
- CL:個|个[ge4]
- opening
- valve
- switch
- way to do something
- knack
- family
- house
- (religious) sect
- school (of thought)
- class
- category
- phylum or division (taxonomy)
- classifier for large guns
- classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology
- (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

Other Words Containing 临门

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
临门 - - 47,359 30,727 19,032
双喜临门 - - 55,493 51,870 38,771