què, quē
watch tower
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 闕
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
fault | ||
palace | ||
the imperial palace | ||
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 | |
Unicode | U+95D5 |
Shuowen | “闕,門觀也。从門,欮聲。” |
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