闕 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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què, quē

watch tower

Components

門 Meaning component

mén

door

gate

欮 Sound component

jué

to hiccough

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

阙 (闕)

què

watch tower; palace; Imperial city watchtower (old); fault; deficiency

阙 (闕)

Quē

surname Que

阙 (闕)

quē

used in place of 缺 (old); mistake

Most common words with 闕

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	阙	fault
	宫阙	palace
	金阙	the imperial palace
	阙特勤	Kul Tigin or Kultegin (685-c. 731), general of the Second Turkic Kaganate

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*kʷʰat	khjwot	què	tower over gate

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3452nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	18
Simplified	阙
Unicode	U+95D5
Shuowen	“闕，門觀也。从門，欮聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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