zhá
sluice
Phonosemantic compound. 门 represents the meaning and 甲 represents the sound. Simplified form of 閘.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 闸
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 | 8 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+95F8 |
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