漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
各: each, every
Also: either
夂 and 口 carry the meaning
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
カクkaku · on'yomi · in compounds
- 各地かくちeach place
- 各国かっこくeach nation
- 各種かくしゅeach type
- 各大学かくだいがくeach university
- 各かくeach; every; all
- 各自かくじeach (person); everyone; individual
- 各位かくいeveryone; each and every one (of you)
Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.
- 各々おのおのrespectively
Also read おのおの, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)夂 sole of foot + 口
To come, to enter; original form of 𢓜 and 格. The mouth could be referred to the entrance of a cavern or building (see 高, 去 and 谷; however, this is not the case in 向).
Source: Wiktionary, 各 (rev. 93647829), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Mouth (口) + go slowly (夊). Refers to people arriving at a gate or entrance one by one, "each" in their own time and at their own pace.”
Connections
各 gives its sound to
The family reading is カク (kaku). Sound parts: KanjiVG.
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by sideIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · gè
Same form: 各 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 各 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 各 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin gè most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.