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
• 㗎

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		架

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jià (jia⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaa³
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): ka
• Min Nan (POJ): kè

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jià
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄚˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chia⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiah
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯a̠⁵¹/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gaa³
    • Yale: ga
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaa³
    • IPA ^(key): /kɑː³³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ka
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /ka⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kè
    • Tâi-lô: kè
    • IPA (Taipei): /ke¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ke²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (架, reconstructed)
Character (架), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 麻 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 古訝切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kɣaH/	/kaH/	/kaH/	/kɯaH/	/kaɨH/	/kaH/	/kaH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (架, reconstructed)
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
架					5883					加					歌					1					駕					/*kraːls/					與閣同源。見詩鄭箋，禮記作枷

Noun

架

1. a rack

Classifier

架

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

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Japanese

Kanji

架

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. construct
2. build
3. raise
4. install
5. undergird
6. support

Readings

• Goon: け (ke)
• Kan’on: か (ka)
• Kun: かける (kakeru), たな (tana), かかる (kakaru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

架 (giá, dứa, gá, rớ)

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