闸 — Chinese character
闸
zhá
sluice, floodgate, canal lock
- Pinyin
- zhá
- Radical
- 169 ⾨ (Gate)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 门 甲
- Formation
- pictophonetic — gate; meaning component 门; sound component 甲
- Traditional
- 閘
Common words with 闸
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 闸门 (閘門) | zhá mén | sluice gate |
| 大闸蟹 (大閘蟹) | dà zhá xiè | Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis); Shanghai hairy crab |
| 水闸 (水閘) | shuǐ zhá | sluice; water gate |
| 船闸 (船閘) | chuán zhá | navigation lock |
| 闸口 (閘口) | zhá kǒu | open sluice gate; (toll) station |
| 晶闸管 (晶閘管) | jīng zhá guǎn | (electronics) silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR); thyristor |
| 跳闸 (跳閘) | tiào zhá | (of a circuit breaker or switch) to trip; to jump a turnstile |
| 闸机 (閘機) | zhá jī | turnstile |
| 气闸 (氣閘) | qì zhá | pneumatic brake; airlock |
| 进水闸 (進水閘) | jìn shuǐ zhá | water intake; inlet sluice |
| 电闸 (電閘) | diàn zhá | electric switch; circuit breaker |
| 闸阀 (閘閥) | zhá fá | gate valve; sluice valve |
English words written with 闸
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.
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