閤

See also: 合, 閣, and 阁

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 門 (“door”) + phonetic 合

Han character

閤 (radical 169 門+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 日弓人一口 (ANOMR), four-corner 7760₁, composition ⿵門合)

1. small side door
2. chamber

References

• KangXi: page 1334, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41301
• Dae Jaweon: page 1840, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4297, character 7
• Unihan data for U+95A4

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		閤

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gé (ge²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gap³, hap⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: gé
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄜˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ko²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ger
    • IPA ^(key): /kɤ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gap³, hap⁶
    • Yale: gap, hahp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gap⁸, hap⁹
    • IPA ^(key): /kɐp̚³/, /hɐp̚²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (閤, reconstructed)
Character (閤), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 合 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 古沓切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kʌp̚/	/kăp̚/	/kᴀp̚/	/kəp̚/	/kəp̚/	/kɒp̚/	/kɒp̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (閤, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
閤								gé								‹ kop ›								/*[k]ˤ[o]p/								small gate
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
閤					4960					合					緝					3					閤					/*kuːb/

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Japanese

Kanji

閤

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: くぐりど (kugurido)

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Korean

Hanja

閤 (hap) (hangeul 합, revised hap, McCune-Reischauer hap, Yale hap)

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