阁
pavilion (usu. two-storied); cabinet (politics); boudoir; woman's chamber; rack; shelf
9 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,717 U+9601
How 阁 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
门 (semantic, “door”) + 各 (phonetic, gè)
How to remember it
cabinet · Heisig RSH #2621
门 gate + 各 each
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 |
| 格 | gé | form, pattern, standard |
| 洛 | luò | a river in the Shanxi province; a city |
| 略 | lüè | approximate, rough; outline, summary; plan, plot |
| 络 | luò | web, net; to entangle |
| 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 阁
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 影子内阁 | yǐng zi nèi gé | shadow cabinet |
| 空中楼阁 | kōng zhōng lóu gé | pavilion in the air (idiom); unrealistic Utopian construction; castles in Spain; imaginary… |
| 内阁总理大臣 | Nèi gé Zǒng lǐ Dà chén | formal title of the Japanese prime minister |
| 太鲁阁族 | Tài lǔ gé zú | Taroko, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan |
| 皇族内阁 | Huáng zú nèi gé | Qing emergency cabinet set up in May 1911 to confront the Xinhai rebels |
| 束之高阁 | shù zhī gāo gé | tied up in a bundle on a high shelf; to put sth on the back burner; no longer a high prior… |
| 佛香阁 | Fó xiāng gé | Tower of Buddhist Incense in the Summer Palace 頤和園|颐和园[Yi2 he2 yuan2], Beijing |
| 太鲁阁 | Tài lǔ gé | Taroko National Park in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县[Hua1 lian2 Xian4], Taiwan; Taroko ethnic gr… |
| 尖阁列岛 | Jiān gé Liè dǎo | Senkaku Islands (Japanese name for the Diaoyu Islands 釣魚島|钓鱼岛[Diao4 yu2 Dao3]), also known… |
| 高阁 | gāo gé | tall building; high shelf |
| 出阁 | chū gé | (of a girl) to marry (literary) |
| 阁下 | gé xià | your distinguished self; your majesty; sire |
| 楼阁塔 | lóu gé tǎ | multistory pagoda |
| 内阁 | nèi gé | (government) cabinet |
| 阁员 | gé yuán | cabinet member |
| 置诸高阁 | zhì zhū gāo gé | lit. place on a high shelf; to pay no attention to (idiom) |
| 剑阁县 | Jiàn gé Xiàn | Jiange, a county in Guangyuan City 廣元市|广元市[Guang3 yuan2 Shi4], Sichuan |
| 亭台楼阁 | tíng tái lóu gé | pavilions and kiosks (in Chinese gardens) |
| 组阁 | zǔ gé | to form a cabinet |
| 雅阁 | Yǎ gé | Accord (Honda brand Japanese car model) |