架

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 加 + semantic 木 (“tree, wood”) – a wooden prop.

Han character

架 (radical 75 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 大口木 (KRD), four-corner 4690₄)

1. rack, stand, prop
2. prop up

See also

• 枷

References

• KangXi: page 517, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14586
• Dae Jaweon: page 905, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1190, character 7
• Unihan data for U+67B6

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Cantonese

Noun

架 (traditional and simplified, jyutping gaa2, Yale ga2, measure word 個)

1. a rack

Measure word

架 (jyutping gaa3, Yale ga3)

1. measuring word for vehicles

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Japanese

Kanji

架 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: か (ka)
• Kun: かける (kakeru), たな (tana), かかる (kakaru)

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Korean

Hanja

架 (hangeul 가, revised ga, McCune-Reischauer ka, Yale ka)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

架 (pinyin jià (jia4), Wade-Giles chia⁴)

Measure word

架 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin jià)

1. classifier for planes, large vehicles, radios etc.

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Vietnamese

Han character

架 (giá, dứa, gá, rớ)