闸
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sluice; sluice gate; to dam up water; (coll.) brake; (coll.) electric switch
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 門 +5
- Structure
- Top enclosure 上包
- Traditional
- 閘
- Common rank
- #2,495
- Unicode
- U+95F8
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 闸
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 气动闸 | pneumatic brake | |
| 进水闸 | water intake; inlet sluice | |
| 水闸 | sluice; water gate; waterlocks; floodgate; lock; dam | |
| 闸机 | turnstile | |
| 手闸 | handbrake | |
| 气闸 | pneumatic brake; airlock | |
| 电闸 | electric switch; circuit breaker | |
| 闸口 | open sluice gate; (toll) station; boarding gate (airport etc); (fig.) gateway (access poin… | |
| 闸道 | (computing) gateway (Tw) | |
| 车闸 | brake (of a car, bicycle etc) | |
| 闸门 | sluice gate | |
| 晶闸管 | (electronics) silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR); thyristor | |
| 大闸蟹 | Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis); Shanghai hairy crab | |
| 船闸 | navigation lock | |
| 跳闸 | (of a circuit breaker or switch) to trip; to jump a turnstile | |
| 泄洪闸 | sluice-gate; flood discharge valve | |
| 闸盒 | electric fusebox; switch box | |
| 闸阀 | gate valve; sluice valve |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 甲 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 甲 sound part | armor, shell; fingernails; 1st heavenly stem | |
| 鸭 | duck; Anas species (various) | |
| 押 | to arrest, to detain; to deposit, to pledge; mortgage | |
| 钾 | potassium | |
| 匣 | case, coffer, small box | |
| 岬 | cape; promontory, headland | |
| 狎 | to be familiar with; to disrespect | |
| 呷 | to swallow, to suck, to drink | |
| 胛 | shoulder; shoulder blade | |
| 柙 | a cage or pen for wild animals |