shé

tower over city gate

Evolution

闍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

() 

tower over city gate; defensive platform over gate; barbican

() 

shé

(used in transliteration from Sanskrit)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6460th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+95CD

Shuowen

“闍,闉闍也。从門,者聲。”


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