格

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		格

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 格
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (各) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
髂	*kʰraːɡs
路	*ɡ·raːɡs
輅	*ɡ·raːɡs
賂	*ɡ·raːɡs
虂	*ɡ·raːɡs
露	*ɡ·raːɡs
潞	*raːɡs
鷺	*raːɡs
璐	*raːɡs
簬	*raːɡs
簵	*ɡ·raːɡs
洛	*ɡ·raːɡ
駱	*ɡ·raːɡ
絡	*ɡ·raːɡ
酪	*ɡ·raːɡ
烙	*ɡ·raːɡ
雒	*ɡ·raːɡ
珞	*ɡ·raːɡ
硌	*ɡ·raːɡ
袼	*ɡ·raːɡ, *klaːɡ
笿	*ɡ·raːɡ
鉻	*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
鮥	*ɡ·raːɡ
鵅	*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
挌	*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
落	*ɡ·raːɡ
各	*klaːɡ
胳	*klaːɡ
閣	*klaːɡ
格	*klaːɡ, *kraːɡ
擱	*klaːɡ
恪	*kʰlaːɡ
愙	*kʰaːɡ
貉	*ɡlaːɡ, *mɡraːɡ
狢	*ɡlaːɡ
佫	*ɡlaːɡ
略	*ɡ·raɡ
茖	*kraːɡ
骼	*kraːɡ
觡	*kraːɡ
蛒	*kraːɡ
敋	*kraːɡ
客	*kʰraːɡ
喀	*kʰraːɡ
揢	*kʰraːɡ
額	*ŋɡraːɡ
峉	*ŋɡraːɡ
頟	*ŋɡraːɡ
詻	*ŋɡraːɡ
垎	*ɡraːɡ
楁	*ɡraːɡ

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

Etymology 1

to go, to come, to arrive

Possibly cognate to Tibetan འགྲོ་བ། ('gro ba, “to go, walk, travel”), འགྲོ་བ་པོ ('gro ba po, “traveler”), འགྲོན་པ ('gron pa, “to go, travel”), མགྲོན (mgron, “guest”), མགྲོན་ཁང (mgron khang, “inn”) (Geilich, 1994). If so, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *grwat (“to go through, to travel”). However, STEDT does not compare this to Tibeto-Burman lexical items under *grwat.

Baxter (1992) proposes that this is related to 路 (OC *ɡ·raːɡs, “road”). Confer 客 (OC *kʰraːɡ, “guest, visitor”), 旅 (OC *ɡ·raʔ, “travel, lodge”), and 行 (OC *ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋs, *ɡraːŋ, *ɡraːŋs, “to go”)

to obstruct, to hinder

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

frame, square

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

style, form, pattern, standard, personality, character

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Semantically derived from "square, frame" sense?”)

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 格

1. pattern; standard; form; style
2. square; frame
3. personality; character
4. (grammar) case
5. (mathematics) lattice
6. ^† to come; to arrive
7. ^† to obstruct; to hinder
   1. 22nd tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "resistance" (𝌛)
8. ^† to investigate
9. a surname

Etymology 2

Onomatopeic.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gē (ge¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄜ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaak³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gē
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄜ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ge
    • Wade–Giles: ko¹
    • Yale: gē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ge
    • Palladius: гэ (gɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɤ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gaak³
    • Yale: gaak
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaak⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: gag³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaːk̚³/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 格

1. An onomatopoeia

Etymology 3

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ka(:)k (“fork, branch, crotch”). Cognate with Apatani á-ha (“branch”), Mizo kâk (“fork of a tree”), Burmese အခက် (a.hkak, “tree branch”).

Attested since the Northern and Southern dynasties period. According to Schuessler (2007), the word may be much older as the graph already appeared in Zhou texts and was intended to mean "branch" (with 木 radical).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gè (ge⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gok³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gè
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gè
    • Wade–Giles: ko⁴
    • Yale: gè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: geh
    • Palladius: гэ (gɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gok³
    • Yale: gok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: gog³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔːk̚³/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 格

1. ^† tree branch

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Japanese

Kanji

格

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: きゃく (kyaku)
• Kan-on: かく (kaku, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: こう (kō, Jōyō ^†)
• Kun: ただす (tadasu, 格す); いたる (itaru, 格る)

Compounds

• 価(か)格(かく) (kakaku): price
• 具(ぐ)格(かく) (gukaku): instrumental
• 呼(こ)格(かく) (kokaku): vocative
• 向(こう)格(かく) (kōkaku): allative
• 斜(しゃ)格(かく) (shakaku): oblique
• 主(しゅ)格(かく) (shukaku): nominative
• 修(しゅう)飾(しょく)格(かく) (shūshokukaku): attributive
• 述(じゅっ)格(かく) (jukkaku): predicative
• 所(しょ)有(ゆう)格(かく) (shoyūkaku): possessive
• 人(じん)格(かく) (jinkaku): personality
• 接(せっ)格(かく) (sekkaku): adessive
• 絶(ぜっ)対(たい)格(かく) (zettaikaku): absolutive
• 前(ぜん)置(ち)格(かく) (zenchikaku): locative
• 造(ぞう)格(かく) (zōkaku): instrumental
• 属(ぞっ)格(かく) (zokkaku): genitive
• 対(たい)格(かく) (taikaku): accusative
• 奪(だっ)格(かく) (dakkaku): ablative
• 能(のう)格(かく) (nōkaku): ergative
• 賓(ひん)格(かく) (hinkaku): objective
• 補(ほ)格(かく) (hokaku): supplement
• 目(もく)的(てき)格(かく) (mokutekikaku): objective
• 与(よ)格(かく) (yokaku): dative
• 連(れん)体(たい)格(かく) (rentaikaku): adnominal
• 格(かく)助(じょ)詞(し) (kakujoshi)

Noun

Kanji in this term
格
かく Grade: 5
kan'on

格(かく) • (kaku) 

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

Proper noun

格(いたる) • (Itaru) 

1. a male given name

格(かく) • (Kaku) 

1. a male given name

格(とおる) • (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

(deprecated template usage) 格 (cách, ghếch)

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