| 闕 | |||
| watch tower; palace | |||
| Radical | 門门𨳇𨳈 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 10 | Total Strokes | 18 |
| Mandarin reading | què jué quē | Cantonese reading | kyut3 |
| Japanese on reading | ketsu | Japanese kun reading | kakeru |
| Korean reading | kwel | Vietnamese reading | |
| Simplified Variant(s) | 阙 | ||
| 闕 | [ quē ] surname Que |
| 闕 | [ quē ] used in place of 缺 (old), mistake |
| 闕 | [ què ] Imperial city watchtower (old), fault, deficiency |
| 闕特勤 | [ quē tè qín ] Kul Tigin or Kultegin (685-c. 731), general of the Second Turkic Kaganate |
| ⇒ 城闕 | [ chéng què ] watchtower on either side of a city gate, (literary) city, imperial palace |
| ⇒ 宮闕 | [ gōng què ] palace |
| ⇒ 補闕 | [ bǔ quē ] old variant of 補缺|补缺[bu3 que1] |
| ⇒ 詣闕 | [ yì quē ] to go to the palace to see the emperor |
| ⇒ 金闕 | [ jīn què ] the imperial palace |