閘
zhá HSK7

sluice

闸 閘 zhá
variant 牐
sluice gate noun
(bound form) sluice gate; floodgate; a water control facility used to adjust water flow; formerly a river tax station
to dam up
to dam up or block a stream of water
brake
(colloquial) brake for a vehicle or machine; mechanism used to slow down or stop movement
switch
(colloquial) electric switch; circuit breaker
surname
a Chinese surname
to cut off
to cut off or switch off electricity

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
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)