Memory phrase for the character: 闸

闸

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Meaning

gear, brake, sluice, electric switch

Pronunciation

zhá

Explanation

Outside: gate 门/門, inside: armor, shield 甲 (The seedling丨 cracks its shield/husk 田)

Mnemonic

(It can be open or closed) The gate is like a switchable shielding, switchable just like: the gear of a gearbox.

Radicals

門	gate	Typically simplified to: 门
甲	armor, shell	In the seedling, the root shoot 丨 bursts the armor/shell 田 (= 甲) - (And this gives the sprout丨 a reason 由.)

Vocabulary

闸门	zhá mén	a sluicegate
水闸	shuǐ zhá	sluice; water gate; waterlocks; floodgate; lock; dam
船闸	chuán zhá	a canal lock

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