格

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 格
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *klaːɡ, *kraːɡ): 木 ‎(“wood”) + 各.

Han character

格 (radical 75 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 木竹水口 (DHER), composition ⿰木各)

References

• KangXi: page 524, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14749
• Dae Jaweon: page 912, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1203, character 6
• Unihan data for U+683C

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		格

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gé (ge²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaak³
• Min Nan (POJ): keh / kek

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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: gaak³
    • Yale: gaak
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaak⁸
    • IPA ^(key): /kɑːk̚³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: keh / kek
    • Tâi-lô: keh / kik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: keq, keg
    • IPA (Taipei): /keʔ³²/, /kiɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /keʔ³²/, /kiɪk̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: /kɑk̚/, /kˠæk̚/▼

Rime
Character	格	格
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	鐸 (103)	陌 (113)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	II
Fanqie	古落切	古伯切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɑk̚/	/kˠæk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kɑk̚/	/kᵚak̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kɑk̚/	/kak̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kak̚/	/kaɨjk̚/
Li Rong	/kɑk̚/	/kɐk̚/
Wang Li	/kɑk̚/	/kɐk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/kɑk̚/	/kɐk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ge	ge

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*kˤrak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*klaːɡ/, /*kraːɡ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	格
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gé
Middle Chinese	‹ kæk ›
Old Chinese	/*kˤrak/
English	go to
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	格	格
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	3885	3894
Phonetic component	各	各
Rime group	鐸	鐸
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	各	格
Old Chinese	/*klaːɡ/	/*kraːɡ/

Definitions

格

1. pattern, standard, form
2. style

Compounds

• gē
  • 格登
  • 格格
• gé
  • 格调
  • 格斗
  • 格格不入
  • 格局
  • 格楞
  • 格林纳达
  • 格林尼治时间
  • 格鲁吉亚
  • 格律
  • 格杀勿论
  • 格式
  • 癴格爲
  • 格式化
  • 格外
  • 格物
  • 格言
  • 格致
  • 格子

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Japanese

Noun

格 ‎(hiragana かく, romaji kaku)

1. status, rank
2. (grammar) case (of a word)
3. capacity
4. character
5. case (law)

Kanji

格

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: きゃく (kyaku)
• Kan’on: かく (kaku)
• Kan’yōon: こう (kō)
• Kun: ただす (tadasu), いたる (itaru)

Compounds

• 価格 (かかく) ‎(kakaku): price
• 具格 (ぐかく) ‎(gukaku): instrumental
• 呼格 (こかく) ‎(kokaku): vocative
• 向格 (こうかく) ‎(kōkaku): allative
• 斜格 (しゃかく) ‎(shakaku): oblique
• 主格 (しゅかく) ‎(shukaku): nominative
• 修飾格 (しゅうしょくかく) ‎(shūshokukaku): attributive
• 述格 (じゅっかく) ‎(jukkaku): predicative
• 所有格 (しょゆうかく) ‎(shoyūkaku): possessive
• 人格 (じんかく) ‎(jinkaku): personality
• 接格 (せっかく) ‎(sekkaku): adessive
• 絶対格 (ぜったいかく) ‎(zettaikaku): absolutive
• 前置格 (ぜんちかく) ‎(zenchikaku): locative
• 造格 (ぞうかく) ‎(zōkaku): instrumental
• 属格 (ぞっかく) ‎(zokkaku): genitive
• 対格 (たいかく) ‎(taikaku): accusative
• 奪格 (だっかく) ‎(dakkaku): ablative
• 能格 (のうかく) ‎(nōkaku): ergative
• 賓格 (ひんかく) ‎(hinkaku): objective
• 補格 (ほかく) ‎(hokaku): supplement
• 目的格 (もくてきかく) ‎(mokutekikaku): objective
• 与格 (よかく) ‎(yokaku): dative
• 連体格 (れんたいかく) ‎(rentaikaku): adnominal
• 格助詞 (かくじょし) ‎(kakujoshi)

Proper noun

格 ‎(hiragana いたる, romaji Itaru)

1. A male given name

格 ‎(hiragana かく, romaji Kaku)

1. A male given name

格 ‎(hiragana とおる, romaji Tōru)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

格 • ‎(gyeok, nak) (hangeul 격, 낙, revised gyeok, nak, McCune-Reischauer kyŏk, nak, Yale kyek, nak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

格 (cách, ghếch)

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