こうもん

See also: ごうもん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of こうもん – see the following entries.
【肛門】
[noun] (anatomy) anus
【校門】
[noun] school gate, school entrance
【黄門】
[noun] the gates of the Imperial Palace, originally painted yellow
[noun] (archaic) a eunuch
[noun] (by extension) an infertile male
[noun] (historical) short for 黄門侍郎 (kōmonjirō): Chinese equivalent of 中納言 (chūnagon), a middle councilor in the imperial Council of State
[noun] (historical) short for 黄門監 (kōmonkan): Chinese equivalent of 大納言 (dainagon), a chief councilor in the imperial Council of State
[proper noun] short for 水戸黄門 (Mito Kōmon): a nickname of Tokugawa Mitsukuni, the second daimyo of Mito Domain
【後門】
[noun] a back gate
[noun] (figuratively) the anus, as a homophone for 肛門 and in contrast to 前門 (zenmon, “front gate”, figurative for vagina)
【閘門】
[noun] sluice gate, lock gate
(This term, こうもん (kōmon), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)

(The following entries do not have a page created for them yet: 孔門, 公門, 港門.)

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