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
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 木 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 格
- Common rank
- #159
- Unicode
- U+683C
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 格
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 罗格斯大学 | Rutgers University (New Jersey) | |
| 人格化 | to personalize; anthropomorphism | |
| 性格不合 | incompatibility of temperament | |
| 道格拉斯 | Douglas (name) | |
| 海德格尔 | Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), German philosopher | |
| 安格斯 | Angus, a traditional county of Scotland, now a "council area" | |
| 安格尔 | Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), French Neoclassical painter | |
| 西格马 | sigma (Greek letter Σ, σ) | |
| 德格县 | Dêgê, a county in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州[Gan1 zi1 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 … | |
| 打格子 | to draw a rectangular grid (e.g. of farmland); to checker | |
| 拉法格 | Lafargue (name); Paul Lafargue (1842-1911), French socialist and revolutionary activist, s… | |
| 格子 | lattice; check (pattern of squares) | |
| 人格 | personality; integrity; dignity | |
| 人格神 | personal god | |
| 格里高利 | Gregory or Grigory (name) | |
| 格尔木市 | 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 | erg (physics) (loanword) | |
| 性格 | nature; disposition; temperament; character; CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 格拉 | Gera (city in Germany) | |
| 格机 | (coll.) to factory-reset a phone (or other device) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 各 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 各 sound part | individual; each, every; all | |
| 路 | road, path, street; journey | |
| 洛 | a river in the Shanxi province; a city | |
| 略 | approximate, rough; outline, summary; plan, plot | |
| 络 | web, net; to entangle | |
| 阁 | cabinet, chamber, pavilion | |
| 酪 | cream, cheese; koumiss | |
| 胳 | arms; armpit | |
| 咯 | final particle | |
| 骆 | camel | |
| 烙 | to burn, to brand; hot iron | |
| 恪 | respectful, reverent | |
| 珞 | a kind of necklace | |
| 貉 | raccoon dog | |
| 骼 | bone, skeleton; corpse | |
| 饹 | buckwheat or sorghum noodles | |
| 铬 | chromium | |
| 袼 | gusset, cloth fitting-sleeve | |
| 硌 | hard, bulging |