玉门关

Traditional form:

玉門關

Pinyin (reading):

Yùmén Guān

Definitions:

• Yumen Pass, or Jade Gate, western frontier post on the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty, west of Dunhuang, in Gansu

Characters:

• 玉 - jade, gem, precious stone
• 门 - gate, door, entrance, opening
• 关 - frontier pass; to close, to shut; relation

Traditional characters:

• 玉 - jade, gem, precious stone
• 門 - gate, door, entrance, opening
• 關 - frontier pass; to close, to shut; relation