què

close

Components
门 meaning component

  Meaning component

mén

  

door

gate

癸 sound component

  Sound component

guǐ

  

10th heavenly stem

Evolution

阕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
阕 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
阕 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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què

close, shut; watch tower; (literary) to end; to stop; one of the stanzas (usually two) of a ci poem |[cí]; classifier for songs or ci poems