闕 — Chinese character
闕
quē
palace; watchtower
- Pinyin
- quē
- Radical
- 169 ⾨ (Gate)
- Strokes
- 18
- Components
- 門 欮
- Formation
- pictophonetic — gate; meaning component 門; sound component 欮
- Simplified
- 阙
- Japanese
- 闕 as a kanji
闕 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 5 · Art of War 2 · Zhuangzi 2
- Analects 2.18
- Analects 13.3
- Analects 14.47
- Analects 15.25
- Art of War 7.36
- Art of War 11.50
- Zhuangzi On Declining Power
- Zhuangzi Robber Chê
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.