Xu Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Gate (mén) Entry: 闥 Kangxi stroke count: 21 Page 1342, Entry 01 Pronounced ta. Shuowen Jiezi (Dictionary of Explaining and Analyzing Characters): Refers to a gate. Guangya (Expanded Glossary): A gate is called a ta. Book of Odes (Shijing): That lovely girl, is in my gateway. Commentary: The gate interior. Explication of Texts: Han Poetry states the area between the gate and the screen is called a ta. In the Han Dynasty, the forbidden palace gate was called the Yellow Gate (huangta). History of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu): Did not emerge from the chambers and gates. Commentary: Small gates or inner gates. Biography of Fan Kuai: Kuai pushed open the gate and entered directly. Commentary: A small gate within the palace. Also called a gate screen. Also refers to a side gate. History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu): On the yi-wei day, a fire occurred at the Chengshan Gate of the Southern Palace. Commentary: A side gate is called a ta. Also pronounced jian. A piece of wood used to block a gate. Yupian (Jade Chapters): A protruding wooden beam for a gate. Also used as a rhyme (tuo). Cui Yin's Statement on Reaching (Dazhi): Climbing the terrace steps to peer at the purple gate, leaning on the high carriage looking toward the vermilion towers. Also used as a rhyme (dui). Cao Zhi's Eulogy for Wang Can: My king established the state, with officials talented and wise; you were promoted to prominence, holding the mechanism and inspecting the palace gate.