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Chinese symbol for “trapdoor”

活板
huó bǎn
trapdoor

The closest CC-CEDICT match for trapdoor is 活板 (huó bǎn), defined as: trapdoor.

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Characters and stroke order

活 huó
to exist, to live, to survive; living, working
radical 85 ⽔ · 9 strokes
板 bǎn
board, plank; plate, slab; unnatural, stiff
radical 75 ⽊ · 8 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 活板.

WordPinyinMeaning
活动 (活動)huó dòngto exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc)
生活shēng huóto live; life
活跃 (活躍)huó yuèactive; lively
活着 (活著)huó zhealive
活力huó lìenergy; vitality
灵活 (靈活)líng huóflexible; nimble
老板lǎo bǎnvariant of 老板 (lǎo bǎn)
地板dì bǎnfloor

See also: Japanese symbol for “trapdoor”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.