阅

閱
yuè
#1,487 most
frequent character
to inspect, to review, to read

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

阅 puts 门, a double door, with 兑 yuè, which supplies the sound. It first meant standing in the doorway to count things, like taking stock. That grew to observing and inspecting, and then to reading. The sense 'to go through or experience' was borrowed on sound alone.

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