| 哪门子 |
nǎ mén zi |
(coll.) (emphasizing a rhetorical question) what / what kind / why on earth |
| 哪 |
nǎ |
how / which |
| 哪 |
na |
(emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊 after a word ending in "n") |
| 哪 |
né |
used in 哪吒 / Taiwan pr. [nuo2] |
| 哪 |
něi |
which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier) |
| 门 |
Mén |
surname Men |
| 门 |
mén |
gate / door / CL:扇 / gateway / doorway / CL:个 / 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) |
| 门子 |
mén zi |
door / doorman (old) / hanger-on of an aristocrat / social influence / pull / classifier for relatives, marriages etc |
| 子 |
zǐ |
son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub- |
| 子 |
zi |
noun suffix, as in 椅子 "chair" |