户
hù · HSK 4
a household
🚪 户 = a one-leaf door; 門 split in half
户 originally depicted a single-panel door, while 門 showed the double-leaf gate. As a measure word it counts households — each home being one 'door' on the street.
户 — single-leaf door (half of 門)
户 is a pictograph showing a single-leaf door, originally drawn as half of 門 (a double door). It came to mean 'door,' then by extension 'household' or 'family,' since a door marks one dwelling. Today it commonly means 'household' or 'account.'