闸 (zhá) — Chinese Character

闸

zhá

old variant of 闸; sluice; lock (on waterway)

Radical: 门 HSK 8 n pictophonetic

Components & Etymology

闸 decomposes into the following components:

门甲

Semantic component: 门; phonetic component: 甲.

Common multi-character words and phrases that include 闸.

下闸

xià zhá

手闸

shǒu zhá

旋闸

xuán zhá

气闸

qì zhá

水闸

shuǐ zhá

港闸

gǎng zhá

电闸

diàn zhá

船闸

chuán zhá

跳闸

tiào zhá

车闸

chē zhá

闸口

zhá kǒu

闸机

zhá jī

Characters that share the radical 门.

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