| 荜门圭窦 |
bì mén guī dòu |
wicker door, hole window (idiom); fig. wretched hovel / living in poverty |
| 荜 |
bì |
bean / pulse |
| 门 |
Mén |
surname Men |
| 门 |
mén |
gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇) / valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure / way to do sth; knack; method; approach / family; household; lineage / (bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic) / (bound form) class; category; division; phylum / classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc / (suffix) -gate (scandal) |
| 圭 |
guī |
jade tablet, square at the base and rounded or pointed at the top, held by the nobility at ceremonies / sundial / (ancient unit of volume) a tiny amount; a smidgen; a speck |
| 窦 |
Dòu |
surname Dou |
| 窦 |
dòu |
(literary) hole; aperture / (anatomy) cavity; sinus |