閘

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See also: 闸
閘 U+9598, 閘
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9598
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 閙 →

Translingual

Han character

閘 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 日弓田中 (ANWL), four-corner 77506, composition ⿵門甲)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1333, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41263
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1839, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4292, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+9598

Chinese

trad. 閘
simp. 闸
alternative forms 牐／闸
Wikipedia has articles on:
  • 閘 (Cantonese)
  • 閘 (Written Standard Chinese?)

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (甲) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
笚 *ʔl'aːb, *ɡraːb
閘 *klaːb, *sɡreːb, *qraːb
鉀 *klaːb, *kraːb
甲 *kraːb
胛 *kraːb
岬 *kraːb
押 *kraːb, *qraːb
玾 *kraːb
呷 *qʰraːb
匣 *ɡraːb
狎 *ɡraːb
柙 *ɡraːb
翈 *ɡraːb
炠 *ɡraːb
鴨 *qraːb
庘 *qraːb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *klaːb, *sɡreːb, *qraːb) : semantic 門 (“gate”) + phonetic 甲 (OC *kraːb).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • cha̍h - vernacular (“to block”);
  • cha̍p - literary.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 閘
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂa³⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂa²⁴/
Tianjin /t͡sɑ⁴⁵/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂa⁴²/
Qingdao /ʈ͡ʂa⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂa⁵³/
Xi'an /t͡sa⁴⁴/
Xining /t͡sa²⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂa¹³/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂa¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡sa⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡sa²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡sa³¹/
Guiyang /t͡sa²¹/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂa̠³¹/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂɑʔ⁵/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡saʔ⁵⁴/
Pingyao /t͡sʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /t͡sa³¹/
Wu Shanghai /zaʔ¹/
Suzhou /zaʔ³/
Hangzhou /zɑʔ²/
Wenzhou /za²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʰa²²/
Tunxi /t͡sɔ⁵/
/sɔ²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /t͡sa²⁴/
Xiangtan /t͡sɒ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡saʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰap̚⁵/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sap̚²/
Nanning /t͡sap̚²²/
Hong Kong /t͡sap̚²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /t͡sap̚⁵/
/t͡saʔ⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /t͡saʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /t͡sa²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /t͡saʔ⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ta³³/
Rime
Character 閘 閘
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 盍 (144) 狎 (150)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I II
Fanqie 古盍切 烏甲切
Baxter kap 'aep
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kɑp̚/ /ʔˠap̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kɑp̚/ /ʔᵚap̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kɑp̚/ /ʔap̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kap̚/ /ʔaɨp̚/
Li
Rong 		/kɑp̚/ /ʔap̚/
Wang
Li 		/kɑp̚/ /ap̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kɑp̚/ /ʔap̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		ge ya
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gap3 aap3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 閘 閘 閘
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 5928 5930 5947
Phonetic
component 		甲 甲 甲
Rime
group 		盍 盍 盍
Rime
subdivision 		1 2 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		䫦 𥯦 鴨
Old
Chinese 		/*klaːb/ /*sɡreːb/ /*qraːb/
Notes 宋來訓讀爲牐

Definitions

閘

  1. sluice; floodgate
  2. switch; breaker; brake
    踩閘／踩闸  ―  cǎizhá  ―  to step on the brake
  3. (chiefly Cantonese) gate (Classifier: 道 c)
    入閘／入闸 [Hong Kong Cantonese]  ―  jap6 zaap6   ―  to pass through a ticket barrier
  4. to dam
  5. (Cantonese, Southern Min) to block; to obstruct
    Alternative forms: 截 (Hokkien), 柵 / 栅 (Hokkien)
  6. (Hong Kong, soccer) fullback
    左閘／左闸 [Hong Kong Cantonese]  ―  zo2 zaap6   ―  left fullback
  7. a surname

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

閘

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

閘 • (gap) (hangeul 갑, revised gap, McCune–Reischauer kap, Yale kap)

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