不得其門而入 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 不得其门而入 bùdéqíménérrù ㄅㄨˋ ㄉㄜˊ ㄑㄧˊ ㄇㄣˊ ㄦˊ ㄖㄨˋ to be unable to get into (a house, an organization, a field of study, a particular type of career etc) Character by character 不(bù)no 得(dé)get 其(qí)his 門(mén)surname Men 而(ér)and 入(rù)enter A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0