漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home
閣: tower, tall building
Also: palace
JLPT N114 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
門 carries the meaning · 各 gives the sound
14 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
カクkaku · on'yomi · in compounds
- 閣僚かくりょうcabinet ministers
- 閣議かくぎcabinet meeting
- 閣下かっかYour excellency
- 内閣ないかくcabinet, ministry
- 楼閣ろうかくmultistoried building
- 仏閣ぶっかくBuddhist temple
- 金閣寺きんかくじKinkakuji Temple
- 銀閣寺ぎんかくじGinkakuji Temple
- 天守閣てんしゅかくcastle tower
- 組閣するそかくするform a cabinet
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)門 gate (meaning) + 各 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 閣 (rev. 91717918), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine the grand entrance to a temple or a fortress! Two heavy wooden doors stand ready to swing wide.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
各
Also built on each (各)
閣 takes the 各 family's reading, カク (kaku).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side閣 tower · 各
vs閲 review · 兌In ChineseSimplified 阁 · traditional, as in Japanese · gé
Japan keeps the traditional form 閣; mainland China simplifies it to 阁.
- Simplified
- 阁 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 閣 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin gé most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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