敲门砖 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 敲門磚 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 门(mén)surname Men 砖(zhuān)brick A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0