old variant of 閘|闸[zha2] / sluice / lock (on waterway)
gear / brake / sluice / lock (on waterway) / electric switch or circuit breaker

闸 character breakdown

first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75°

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 甲 just looks like a protest placard.

It's the first (甲) time Joan of Arc (ji) is protesting against something using a protest placard (甲). Inside of the ashram (a3), she is protesting against the many dinosaur bones (丨) lying around. She does not only have a protest placard, she also uses a microphone (曰) to deliver raging speeches.
surname Men
gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

Mahatma Gandhi wants his revenge on the Chinese emperor! Like a spider he sits in the upper left corner of the encampment's kitchen, ready to strike with the trap door he installed in the floor.

Characters with 闸 as component

闸 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 闸

electric switch / circuit breaker
pneumatic brake / airlock
open sluice gate / (toll) station / boarding gate (airport etc) / (fig.) gateway (access point)
area in the Shangcheng district of Hangzhou
sluice / water gate / waterlocks / floodgate / lock / dam
(of a circuit breaker or switch) to trip / to jump a turnstile
Gangzha district of Nantong city 南通市[Nan2 tong1 shi4], Jiangsu
Gangzha district of Nantong city 南通市[Nan2 tong1 shi4], Jiangsu
lower sluice gate / outflow sluice
sluice-gate / flood discharge valve
water intake / inlet sluice
Zhabei district, central Shanghai
rotor sluice gate
electric fusebox / switch box
(computing) gateway (Tw)

Sentences with 闸

闸 currently does not appear in any sentence.