閲 yuè examine Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Historical Pronunciations Middle ChineseOld ChineseZhengzhanglodUnicodeiuɛt Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang 阅 yuè examine, read Simplified Phonosemantic compound. 门 represents the meaning and 兌 represents the sound. Simplified form of 閱. Components 门 门 Meaning component mén, men door 兑 兑 Sound component duì, ruì, duó exchange Change in sound 阅 and 兑 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese. Sources Character origin 漢語多功能字庫Readings & variants Unicode