阙 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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què, quē

watch tower

Components

门 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)

Traditional script

Modern

Simplified script

Modern

Definitions

què

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

Quē

surname Que

quē

used in place of 缺 (old); mistake

Most common words with 阙

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

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3452nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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