| 旁门左道 |
páng mén zuǒ dào |
dissenting religious sect (idiom); heretical school of opinion / dissident group |
| 旁 |
páng |
one side / other / different / lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂, 亻 etc) |
| 旁门 |
páng mén |
side door |
| 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) |
| 左 |
Zuǒ |
surname Zuo |
| 左 |
zuǒ |
left / the Left (politics) / east / unorthodox / queer / wrong / differing / opposite / variant of 佐 |
| 道 |
dào |
road; path (CL:条,股) / (bound form) way; reason; principle / (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization / (Daoism) the Way; the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division) |