关门

to close a door in Mandarin

The mandarin vocabulary 关门 can also mean to lock a door and (of a shop etc) to close (for the night, or permanently)

Mnemomic to remember the meaning

You can remember the meaning of 关门 with this easy mnemonic:

Please shut (关) the gate (门) and close the door behind you when you come in.

Using mnemonics to remember the meaning of Chinese characters like can have an enormous impact on how long to learn Mandarin it takes.

关门 is made up of these characters

These characters also appear in these words

Mnemomic to remember the reading

The reading of 关门 is guān mén.

You can remember how to say 关门 with this useful mnemonic:

Go (gu) on (ān) and do it! There are some bad men (mén) around this neighborhood who will rob us if you don't close the door!

Using mnemonics to remember the reading of Chinese vocabulary like has a huge impact on how long to learn Mandarin it takes.

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How long does it take to learn Mandarin?

Learning vocabulary like to close a door and the rest of the Mandarin written language can take as little as one year, or as long as a lifetime. Our Mandarin language learners find that using helpful mnemonics can aid retention of Chinese Mandarin vocabulary and characters.

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