door

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 扉 has 12 strokes, the on-reading ひ, and the kun-reading とびら. 扉 (とびら) means a door; in 門扉 (もんぴ), 扉 is read ぴ.
• Basic usage: 扉 names a door panel; 門扉 names a gate or its doors, such as those at a garden entrance.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Doors and gate doors
  • 重い扉を押すと appears in the scene where pushing a heavy door reveals a garden. 扉が静かに閉まった means that the door closed quietly.
  • 庭の門扉を閉めて鍵を掛けた means closed and locked the garden gate. 古い門扉 is followed by a description of delicate patterns carved into the old gate doors.