Taxonomy of meanings for 閭:　　

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    • GATE
      • nneighbourhood gate; village gate (the height of which indicted status of the inhabitants)
    • MALES OF QI
      • VILLAGE
        • nUNGER SACH ly gives details. ZZ 1268: immediate neighbourhood, village; area (in conurbation)
        • n[adN]the people of the villageCH

      Additional information about 閭

      說文解字:

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      • VILLAGE

        1. The current general word for a village of any kind is lǐ 里. But note that this word even more often refers to city neighbourhoods.

        2. Xiāng 鄉 as an administrative term refers to a fairly non-urban neighbourhood area which will normally include several lǐ 里. ZHOULI and Han commentators arbitrarily define this as containing 12 500 families; when used informally, the term refers to a person's home or the vicinity where he lives, as in xiāng rén 鄉人.

        3. Lu �閭 refers generally to a narrowly defined neighbourhood area in the countryside, or a small neighbourhood in a conurbation. Han commentators do not quantify the number of inhabitants.

        4. Lín 鄰 refers to the administrative unit of a "neighbourhood". Traditionally, this was quantified as containing five or eight families.

      • GATE

        1. The current general word for a gate or door of any kind is mén 門, but the word also refers specifically to the two-leaf main gate rather than small doors inside a building complex.

        2. Fēi 扉 refers to a main gate which has only one leaf or to the leaf of a gate.

        3. Hé 闔 refers generally to the wing of a door. Specifically - according to the Zheng's commentary to the LIJI - the word refers to the wooden wing.

        4. Wéi 闈 (ant. dà mén 大門 ) refers to the minor gates to a compound or palace.

        5. Lu �閭 refers to a gate of a neighbourhood or a village.

        6. Hàn 閈 is another term for the gate of a village.

        7. Yán 閻 refers to the gate inside a village or neighbourhood; it also refers to the small street in a village.

        8. Hóng 閎 originally perhaps referred to the street gate inside a palace (??), but it can be also used as the general term for a gate.

        9. Tà 闥 refers to a small door and also to the space inside the door.