gé
chamber
Phonosemantic compound. 門 represents the meaning and 各 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 閣
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
sire | ||
(government) cabinet | ||
boudoir | ||
garret | ||
to form a cabinet |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.kˤak | kak | gé | shelf, frame |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 9.3705% of movies
1630th most common character in movies
1682nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+95A3 |
Shuowen | “閣，所以止扉也。从門，各聲。” |
Sources
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