Chinese Character 闸 Meanings and components.
Form
闸
Meaning
- 闸 meaning[3] in English
Old Variant Of 閘|闸[Zha2].
Sluice.
Lock (On Waterway).
Main Components
By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 闸 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are surname Men (门) , and first of the … (甲)
Its radical[1] is: 門 (men2) which means: Surname Men, .門
In cangjie it is written with LSWL
How to write 闸
To write闸 you should write a combination of 门 , 甲 arranged in a 回 shape:
门 + 甲 = 闸
闸 Stroke Order
The order of the strokes to write 闸 should be followed in this specific way.
Components Tree
The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 闸, looks as follow:
闸
Pinyin:zha2 Shape:回
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 閘|闸[Zha2] . Sluice . Lock (On Waterway)
甲
Pinyin:jia3 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: First Of The Ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[Shi2 Tian1 Gan1] . (Used For An Unspecified Person Or Thing) . First (In A List, As A Party To A Contract Etc) . Letter 'A' Or Roman 'I' In List 'A, B, C', Or 'I, Ii, Iii' Etc . Armor Plating . Shell Or Carapace . (Of The Fingers Or Toes) Nail . Bladed Leather Or Metal Armor (Old) . Ranking System Used In The Imperial Examinations (Old) . Civil Administration Unit In The Baojia 保甲[Bao3 Jia3] System (Old) . Ancient Chinese Compass Point: 75°