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闸

zhá

Character Traditional 閘

What 闸 means

1. sluice; sluice gate
2. to dam up water
3. colloquialbrake
4. colloquialelectric switch

Other readings

闸 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• zháold variant of {闸|zhá}; sluice; lock (on waterway)

Example sentences

• 愚蠢骑着没有闸的单车。
  Stupidity is riding a bike that doesn't have brakes.

Words starting with 闸

• 闸门zhá ménsluice gate
• 闸口zhá kǒuopen sluice gate; (toll) station; boarding gate (airport etc)
• 闸机zhá jīturnstile
• 闸盒zhá héelectric fusebox; switch box
• 闸道zhá dào(computing) gateway (Tw)
• 闸阀zhá fágate valve; sluice valve

Words containing 闸

• 大闸蟹dà zhá xièChinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis); Shanghai hairy crab
• 手闸shǒu zháhandbrake
• 气闸qì zhápneumatic brake; airlock
• 水闸shuǐ zhásluice; water gate; waterlocks
• 船闸chuán zhánavigation lock
• 跳闸tiào zhá(of a circuit breaker or switch) to trip; to jump a turnstile
• 车闸chē zhábrake (of a car, bicycle etc)
• 电闸diàn zháelectric switch; circuit breaker
• 晶闸管jīng zhá guǎn(electronics) silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR); thyristor
• 气动闸qì dòng zhápneumatic brake
• 泄洪闸xiè hóng zhásluice-gate; flood discharge valve
• 进水闸jìn shuǐ zháwater intake; inlet sluice

Characters built on 甲

These share the phonetic component 甲 (jiǎ), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 押yāto mortgage; to pawn; to detain in custody
• 鸭yāduck; (slang) male prostitute
• 呷gāused in 呷呷

Characters that look like 闸

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 间jiānbetween; among; within a definite time or space
• 图túdiagram; picture; drawing
• 闲xiánenclosure; (variant of 闲; unoccupied
• 闹nàonoisy; cacophonous; to make noise
• 驹jūcolt
• 闵Mǐnsurname Min

Sounds the same

Read zhá, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 炸to deep fry; (colloquial) to blanch (a vegetable); Taiwan pr. zhà
• 札thin piece of wood used a writing tablet (in ancient China)…
• 铡lever-style guillotine; to chop using this type of guillotine
• 轧to roll (steel)
• 扎used in 挣扎
• 甴used in 曱甴
• 蚻Aphrophora martima
• 霅rain