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1. • gate door doorway gateway opening (CL:扇[shan4])
2. • valve switch other door-like or gate-like structure
3. • way to do sth knack method approach
4. • family household lineage
5. • sect school faction (religious or academic)

     bound form

6. • class category division phylum

     bound form

7. • classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc
8. • -gate (scandal)

     suffix