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Chinese symbol for “backdoor”

后门
hòu mén
Traditional: 後門
back door; back gate; (fig.) back-door influence; under-the-table dealings; anus; (computing) backdoor

The closest CC-CEDICT match for backdoor is 后门 (hòu mén), defined as: back door; back gate; (fig.) back-door influence; under-the-table dealings; anus; (computing) backdoor.

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Characters and stroke order

后 hòu
after; behind, rear; descendants
radical 30 ⼝ · 6 strokes
门 mén
gate, door, entrance, opening
radical 169 ⾨ · 3 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 后门.

WordPinyinMeaning
最后 (最後)zuì hòufinal; last; ultimate; finally; in the end
之后 (之後)zhī hòuafter; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then
然后 (然後)rán hòuthen; after that; afterwards
以后 (以後)yǐ hòuafter; later
后来 (後來)hòu láiafterwards; later; newly arrived
后面 (後面)hòu mianthe back; the rear; the last bit; behind; near the end; at the back
部门 (部門)bù méndepartment; branch
专门 (專門)zhuān ménspecialized; dedicated (to a particular field or purpose); specially; specifically (for a particular purpose)

See also: Japanese symbol for “backdoor”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.