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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
zhá - old variant of 閘|闸[zha2]
- sluice
- lock (on waterway)
zhá - sluice; sluice gate
- to dam up water
- (coll.) brake
- (coll.) electric switch

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- 9 18,229 9,492 8,210

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Gate

Other Words Containing

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
闸门 - - 17,509 20,524 42,764
- 9 18,229 9,492 8,210
气闸 - - 23,996 - -
电闸 - - 24,109 65,303 52,634
闸口 - - 30,940 51,718 65,002
水闸 - - 39,570 38,766 68,383
跳闸 - - 49,887 - -
车闸 - - 62,181 - 115,193
船闸 - - 84,661 29,615 82,277