閘
zhá HSK7

sluice

闸 (閘) zhá
brake noun
a device for slowing or stopping a moving vehicle

自行车的闸坏了，得赶紧修。

zì​xíng​chē de zhá huài le, děi gǎn​jǐn xiū.

The bicycle brakes are broken and need to be fixed right away.

dam up verb
to stop or control the flow of water

把这条河闸住，引水灌溉农田。

bǎ zhè tiáo hé zhá zhù, yǐn​shuǐ guàn​gài nóng​tián.

Dam up the river to divert water for field irrigation.

electric switch noun
an electrical switch or circuit breaker

离开房间前，请把电闸关掉。

lí​kāi fáng​jiān qián, qǐng bǎ diàn zhá guān​diào.

Please turn off the main switch before leaving the room.

sluice noun
a sluice or sluice gate used to control water flow

干旱季节，管理人员会准时开启水库的闸。

gān​hàn jì​jié, guǎn​lǐ rén​yuán huì zhǔn​shí kāi​qǐ shuǐ​kù de zhá.

During the dry season, the managers open the reservoir's sluice gates on schedule.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,280th most common 6.99 per million
Movie subtitles
2,904th most common 4.03 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.31 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
8.93 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
闸
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+9598

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)