chāng

gate of heaven

A heavenly  gate  also provides the pronunciation

Components
門 meaning component

  Meaning component

mén

  

door

昌 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

chāng

  

prosperous

Evolution

閶 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
閶 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

chāng

gate of heaven; main gate of palace; gate of palace

Most common words with 閶
Freq.
Word
Meaning

gate of heaven

金阊区

Jinchang district of Suzhou city 蘇州市|苏州市[Sū​zhōu​shì], Jiangsu

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5926th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+95B6

Shuowen

“閶,天門也。从門,昌聲。楚人名門曰閶闔。”


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