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Is it more common to read 門 as かど or もん?

e.g. how would we pronounce the 門 in 彼らは門が開くのを待っていた。
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vocabulary kanji pronunciation
Is 門 read as かど or もん?
I think that もん is the word you mean, and かど is used mostly (only?) in names.
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I think もん is Chinese reading and かど is Japanese reading .

You would found かど is usually used for the Classic Movies

for example...

みかど(mikado)「御門」

かどまつ(kadomatu)「門松」

かどで(kadode)「門出」

かどうき(kadowaki)「門脇」（name）
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When the kanji character 門 is used as a noun in itself (meaning a gate), it is
usually read as もん, although it was also read as かど in older time. As other
people say, 門 in your example should be read as もん in the modern Japanese.

The most common example of 門 read as かど in the modern Japanese that I can
think of is a proverb 笑う門には福来る (わらうかどにはふくきたる). This 門 is read as かど and means
a house. The literal meaning of the proverb is “Happiness comes to a home
where family is laughing.” [Progressive Waei Chū
Jiten](http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/dsearch?enc=UTF-8&p=%E7%AC%91%E3%81%86&dtype=3&dname=2na&stype=0)
suggests two translations of this proverb: the more literal one is “Fortune
favors cheerful homes,” and the less literal one is “Laugh and grow fat.”
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