閣

See also 阁, and 閤

Translingual

simpl.		阁
trad.		閣

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): 門 (“gate”) + 各.

Han character

閣 (radical 169 門+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 日弓竹水口 (ANHER), four-corner 7760₄)

1. chamber, pavilion
2. cabinet

Descendants

• 阁

References

• KangXi: page 1334, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41300
• Dae Jaweon: page 1840, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4298, character 2
• Unihan data for U+95A3

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Cantonese

Hanzi

閣 (simplified 阁, Yale gok3)

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Japanese

Kanji

閣 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: かく (kaku)
• Kun: かんぬき (kannuki), たな (tana), たかどの (takadono)

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Korean

Hanja

閣 (hangeul 각, revised gak, McCune-Reischauer kak, Yale kak)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

閣 (simplified 阁, pinyin gé (ge2), hé (he2), Wade-Giles ko², ho²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

閣 (các, gác)