阙 — Chinese character
阙
quē
palace; watchtower
- Pinyin
- quē
- Radical
- 169 ⾨ (Gate)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 门 欮
- Formation
- pictophonetic — gate; meaning component 门; sound component 欮
- Traditional
- 闕
Common words with 阙
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 宫阙 (宮闕) | gōng què | palace |
| 补阙 (補闕) | bǔ quē | old variant of 补缺 (bǔ quē) |
| 城阙 (城闕) | chéng què | watchtower on either side of a city gate; (literary) city |
| 诣阙 (詣闕) | yì què | (old) to go to the palace to see the emperor; (old) to go to the capital |
| 金阙 (金闕) | jīn què | the imperial palace |
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.