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走後門兒 (zau2 hau6 mun4 ji4) — to use back door connections; to get in by the back door; backdoor dealings [粵]: 走後門 in Cantonese

zauˊ²走hauˍ₆後munˎ₄門jiˎ₄兒
简 走后门儿
Mandarin Pinyin: zou3 hou4 menr2

Meaning of 走後門兒

nounto use back door connections; to get in by the back door; backdoor dealings [粵]: 走後門

Characters in 走後門兒

走zau2
leave; go away; move
後hau6
a Chinese family name
門mun4
the key; turning point
兒ji4
final particle / suffix, placed after many commonly used nouns to avoid employing one-syllable terms in speech (very common in the Beijing dialect 北京話, see: 兒化, 兒化韻)

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