zhá
sluice
Phonosemantic compound. 門 represents the meaning and 甲 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 閘
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
gear | ||
sluice gate | ||
electric switch | ||
airlock | ||
open sluice gate |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.3936% of movies
2903rd most common character in movies
3280th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9598 |
Shuowen | “閘，開閉門也。从門，甲聲。” |
Sources
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