革出山门

to excommunicate (from a Buddhist monastery)

to go out / to come out / to occur / to produce / to go beyond / to rise / to put forth / to happen / (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc

variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)

gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable

animal hide / leather / to reform / to remove / to expel (from office)

to leave the mountain (of a hermit) / to come out of obscurity to a government job / to take a leading position

to expel / to kick out

monastery main gate (Buddhism) / monastery