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chamber
Phonosemantic compound. 门 represents the meaning and 各 represents the sound. Simplified form of 閣.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 阁
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
sire | ||
(government) cabinet | ||
boudoir | ||
garret | ||
to form a cabinet |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
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 | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+9601 |
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