閣

See also: 阁 and 閤

Translingual

Han character

閣 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 日弓竹水口 (ANHER), four-corner 7760₄, composition ⿵門各)

Derived characters

• 𡁤, 𪦫, 𭟉, 擱(搁), 𤁐, 櫊, 𨆿

Related characters

• 阁 (Simplified Chinese)
• 閤 (Variant traditional form of 阁 in mainland China)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1334, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41300
• Dae Jaweon: page 1840, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4298, character 2
• Unihan data for U+95A3

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 閣
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
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) : semantic 門 (“gate”) + phonetic 各 (OC *klaːɡ).

Etymology 1

trad.		閣
simp.		阁*

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 閣

1. chamber; pavilion
2. cabinet

Etymology 2

trad.		閣
simp.		阁*
alternative forms		擱／搁 佫 故 復／复 過／过 擱／搁 佫 故 復／复 過／过 更 果 固 各 卻／却 革

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): koh

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koh
    • Tâi-lô: koh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koiq
    • IPA (Xiamen): /koʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /koʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /koʔ³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /koʔ³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kɤʔ³²/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 閣

1. (Southern Min) again

   請閣講一擺 [Hokkien, trad.]
   请阁讲一摆 [Hokkien, simp.]

   Chhiáⁿ koh kóng chi̍t pái [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

   Please say it again once more.

Further reading

• “Entry #10941”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

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Japanese

Kanji

閣

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. tower
2. tall building
3. palace

Readings

• On (unclassified): かく (kaku, Jōyō)
• Kun: かんぬき (kannuki); たな (tana, 閣); たかどの (takadono, 閣)

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Korean

Hanja

閣 • (gak) (hangeul 각, revised gak, McCune–Reischauer kak, Yale kak)

1. chamber
2. pavilion
3. cabinet

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 閣 (các, gác)

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