敲門磚 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 敲门砖 qiāoménzhuān ㄑㄧㄠ ㄇㄣˊ ㄓㄨㄢ lit. a brick as a door knocker (idiom) fig. a temporary expedient to use sb as a stepping stone to fortune Character by character 敲(qiāo)hit 門(mén)surname Men 磚(zhuān)brick A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0