门 門 mén gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / 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) syn 开关 開關 kāi guān power switch / gas valve / to open the city (or frontier) gate / to open and close / to switch on and off syn 蒸汽 zhēng qì steam syn 活塞 huó sāi piston / valve syn 阀门 閥門 fá mén valve (mechanical) syn 喷气 噴氣 pēn qì to spurt steam (or air etc) syn 汽笛 qì dí steam whistle / ship horn 热气 熱氣 rè qì steam / heat / CL:股[gu3] syn 蒸气 蒸氣 zhēng qì vapor / steam syn 汽缸 qì gāng cylinder (of steam engine or internal combustion engine) 鸣叫 鳴叫 míng jiào to emit a sound / (of birds, insects etc) to chirp, hoot etc / (of a siren, steam whistle etc) to sound syn 瓣膜 bàn mó valve (biological) syn 熏蒸 燻蒸 xūn zhēng (of sultry weather) to be stifling / (TCM) to treat a disease with fumes generated by burning medicinal herbs or with steam generated by boiling herbs / to fumigate syn 回笼 回籠 huí lóng to steam again / to rewarm food in a bamboo steamer / to withdraw currency from circulation syn 气门 氣門 qì mén valve (esp. tire valve) / accelerator (obsolete term for 油門|油门) / stigma (zool.) / spiracle 电子管 電子管 diàn zǐ guǎn valve (electronics) / vacuum tube syn 水汽 shuǐ qì water vapor / steam / moisture syn 蒸汽机 蒸汽機 zhēng qì jī steam engine syn 安全阀 安全閥 ān quán fá safety valve 汽轮机 汽輪機 qì lún jī steam turbine syn 节流 節流 jié liú to control flow / to choke / weir valve / a throttle / a choke 司炉 司爐 sī lú stoker (worker operating a coal fire, esp. for a steam engine) syn 电磁阀 電磁閥 diàn cí fá solenoid valve 球阀 球閥 qiú fá ball valve 水气 水氣 shuǐ qì water vapor / steam 吐气 吐氣 tǔ qì to exhale / to blow off steam / (phonetics) aspirated 万马奔腾 萬馬奔騰 wàn mǎ bēn téng lit. (like) ten thousand horses galloping (idiom) / fig. going full steam ahead syn 蒸 zhēng to evaporate / (of cooking) to steam / torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old) / finely chopped firewood (old) syn 阀 閥 fá powerful individual, family or group / clique / (loanword) valve syn 瓣 bàn petal / segment / clove (of garlic) / piece / section / fragment / valve / lamella / classifier for pieces, segments etc syn 汽 qì steam / vapor syn 活门 活門 huó mén valve syn 馏 餾 liù to steam / to cook in a steamer / to reheat cold food by steaming it syn 汽轮发电机 汽輪發電機 qì lún fā diàn jī steam turbine electric generator 液态水 液態水 yè tài shuǐ liquid water (as opposed to steam or ice) 罨 yǎn foment / valve syn 二尖瓣 èr jiān bàn mitral valve (physiology) 调门 調門 tiáo mén valve 底阀 底閥 dǐ fá bottom valve / foot valve 顶阀 頂閥 dǐng fá top valve / head valve 闸阀 閘閥 zhá fá gate valve / sluice valve 吸入阀 吸入閥 xī rù fá suction valve 单瓣 單瓣 dān bàn single petal / single valve syn 泄洪闸 洩洪閘 xiè hóng zhá sluice-gate / flood discharge valve 活瓣 huó bàn valve syn 筒阀 筒閥 tǒng fá a sleeve valve 管座 guǎn zuò to mount an electronic valve / to plug in a bulb 阀芯 閥芯 fá xīn valve stem 心瓣 xīn bàn heart valve 波纹管阀 bō wén guǎn fá bellows valve 气缸盖阀门研磨机 氣缸蓋閥門研磨機 cylinder head valve grinder 二级头呼吸器 二級頭呼吸器 èr jí tóu hū xī qì (scuba diving) regulator / demand valve 半月瓣 bàn yuè bàn semilunar valve (anatomy) 角阀 角閥 jiǎo fá angle valve 歊 xiāo vapor / steam 伴热 伴熱 bàn rè electric heat tracing / steam tracing (for maintaining the temperature of pipes etc) 水汀 shuǐ tīng steam (Shanghainese) 焗 jú (dialect) to cook in salt or sand, inside a sealed pot / to steam / to bake 蒸气重整 蒸氣重整 zhēng qì chóng zhěng steam reforming (chemistry) 蒸汽机车 蒸汽機車 zhēng qì jī chē steam locomotive 锅驼机 鍋駝機 guō tuó jī portable steam engine 蒸汽炮 zhēng qì pào steam-gun / Vaporchoc 短焰煤 duǎn yàn méi steam coal 锅炉煤 guō lú méi steam coal 饙 fēn to steam rice 水波炉 水波爐 shuǐ bō lú superheated steam oven 失去后劲 失去後勁 shī qù hòu jìn to peter out / to lose momentum / to lose steam 