格
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square; lattice; grid; frame; compartment; partition; slot (within a larger unit); (bound form) standard; norm; specification; (bound form) character; disposition; moral quality; style; aesthetic tone; (bound form) rhetorical form; stylistic pattern; (bound form) (linguistics) grammatical case; (literary) to correct; to rectify; (literary) to arrive at; to reach; (literary) to obstruct; to hinder; (literary) to investigate exhaustively; classifier for compartments, slots or cells within a larger unit
How 格 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
木 (semantic, “wood”) + 各 (phonetic, gè)
How to remember it
pattern · Heisig RSH #310
各 each + 木 tree
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 各
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 各 (gè) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 各 sound component | gè | individual; each, every; all |
| 路 | lù | road, path, street; journey |
| 洛 | luò | a river in the Shanxi province; a city |
| 略 | lüè | approximate, rough; outline, summary; plan, plot |
| 络 | luò | web, net; to entangle |
| 阁 | gé | cabinet, chamber, pavilion |
| 酪 | lào | cream, cheese; koumiss |
| 胳 | gē | arms; armpit |
| 咯 | gē | final particle |
| 骆 | luò | camel |
| 烙 | lào | to burn, to brand; hot iron |
| 恪 | kè | respectful, reverent |
| 珞 | luò | a kind of necklace |
| 貉 | mò | raccoon dog |
| 骼 | gé | bone, skeleton; corpse |
| 饹 | gē | buckwheat or sorghum noodles |
| 铬 | gè | chromium |
| 袼 | gē | gusset, cloth fitting-sleeve |
| 硌 | gè | hard, bulging |
Words containing 格
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 罗格斯大学 | Luó gé sī Dà xué | Rutgers University (New Jersey) |
| 人格化 | rén gé huà | to personalize; anthropomorphism |
| 性格不合 | xìng gé bù hé | incompatibility of temperament |
| 道格拉斯 | Dào gé lā sī | Douglas (name) |
| 海德格尔 | Hǎi dé gé ěr | Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), German philosopher |
| 安格斯 | Ān gé sī | Angus, a traditional county of Scotland, now a "council area" |
| 安格尔 | Ān gé ěr | Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), French Neoclassical painter |
| 西格马 | xī gé mǎ | sigma (Greek letter Σ, σ) |
| 德格县 | Dé gé Xiàn | Dêgê, a county in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州[Gan1 zi1 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 … |
| 打格子 | dǎ gé zi | to draw a rectangular grid (e.g. of farmland); to checker |
| 拉法格 | Lā fǎ gé | Lafargue (name); Paul Lafargue (1842-1911), French socialist and revolutionary activist, s… |
| 格子 | gé zi | lattice; check (pattern of squares) |
| 人格 | rén gé | personality; integrity; dignity |
| 人格神 | rén gé shén | personal god |
| 格里高利 | Gé lǐ gāo lì | Gregory or Grigory (name) |
| 格尔木市 | Gé ěr mù Shì | Golmud, a county-level city in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州[H… |
| 尔格 | ěr gé | erg (physics) (loanword) |
| 性格 | xìng gé | nature; disposition; temperament; character; CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 格拉 | Gé lā | Gera (city in Germany) |
| 格机 | gé jī | (coll.) to factory-reset a phone (or other device) |