闸

牐

zhá

HSK 7freq #13900

Meanings

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zhá

1.old variant of 闸[zhá]
2.sluice
3.lock (on waterway)

zhá

1.sluice; sluice gate
2.to dam up water
3.(coll.) brake
4.(coll.) electric switch

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Wiktionary

1.sluice; floodgate
2.switch; breaker; brake
3.gate (Classifier: 道 c)
4.to dam
5.to block; to obstruct
6.fullback
7.a surname

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *klaːb, *sɡreːb, *qraːb): semantic 門 (“gate”) + phonetic 甲 (OC *kraːb).

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Components

闸门甲

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

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Related words

旋闸 rotor sluice gate 闸机 turnstile 闸道 (computing) gateway (Tw)下闸 lower sluice gate 车闸 brake (of a car, bicycle etc)跳闸 (of a circuit breaker or switch) to trip 闸口 open sluice gate 闸阀 gate valve; sluice valve 闸门 sluice gate 闸盒 electric fusebox 手闸 handbrake 气闸 pneumatic brake