Etymology

sanmen

San·men
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Today it means: A county of Taizhou, Zhejiang, China. Full definition →

Mandarin 三門 /三门
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  1. Mandarin · borrowed from三門 /三门
  2. English todaySanmen

From Mandarin 三門 /三门 (Sānmén).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.