Taxonomy of meanings for 閨:　　

  • 閨 guī (OC: kʷee MC: kʷei) 古攜切 平 廣韻：【閨閤 】
    • DOOR
      • nERYA: small gate inside the palace,
    • ROOM
      • n{PLACE}adVin proper bedrooms 宮居閨處
      • nwhat it inside doors: private quarters; room; rooms of the palace
    • GUARD
      • WOMAN

        Additional information about 閨

        說文解字: 【閨】，特立之戶。 〔小徐本「戶」下有「也」。〕 上圜下方，有似圭。从門、圭聲。 【古攜切】

          Criteria
        • DOOR

          1. Hù 戶 refers to a one-leaf minor door which may be the main door to an ordinary home. [HUANG 1995: 1017 - 1018; ill.: SUN 1991: 44-17]

          2. Shàn 扇 refers specifically to the wing of a door, and the word also refers to doors within a building complex, similar to hù 戶. [It seems that the word referred originally to the bamboo or reed courtain screening a doorway, and only later began to be used for the wing of a door. [HUANG 1995: 1018]

          3. Guī 閨 sometimes refers to the small door inside the living complex, but usually refers by synekdoche to the private quarters as a whole. [WANG 1993: 200; HUANG 1995: 1024; HANYU DACIDIAN: vol. 12, pp. 100]

          4. Gé 閤 refers to the small gate on the side of a main gate. [WANG 1993: 200; HUANG 1995: 1024 - 1026]

          NB: Yuè mén 月門 style doors were not current in pre-Buddhist China.

          Word relations
        • Assoc: (DOOR)門/GATE The current general word for a gate or door of any kind is mén 門, but the word also refers specifically to the two-leaf main gate rather than small doors inside a building complex.