què

Traditional: 闕

阙 (què) is a Chinese word meaning “Imperial city watchtower (old); fault; deficiency”.

Meanings

  1. 1Imperial city watchtower (old)
  2. 2fault
  3. 3deficiency

Related words

阙used in place of 缺 (old)阙surname Que城阙watchtower on either side of a city gate宫阙palace诣阙(old) to go to the palace to see the emperor金阙the imperial palace阙特勤Kul Tigin or Kultegin (685–c. 731), general of the Second Turkic Khaganate补阙old variant of 補缺|补缺[bu3 que1]

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