阁
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pavilion (usu. two-storied); cabinet (politics); boudoir; woman's chamber; rack; shelf
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 門 +6
- Structure
- Top enclosure 上包
- Traditional
- 閣
- Common rank
- #1,717
- Unicode
- U+9601
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 阁
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 影子内阁 | shadow cabinet | |
| 空中楼阁 | pavilion in the air (idiom); unrealistic Utopian construction; castles in Spain; imaginary… | |
| 内阁总理大臣 | formal title of the Japanese prime minister | |
| 太鲁阁族 | Taroko, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan | |
| 皇族内阁 | Qing emergency cabinet set up in May 1911 to confront the Xinhai rebels | |
| 束之高阁 | tied up in a bundle on a high shelf; to put sth on the back burner; no longer a high prior… | |
| 佛香阁 | Tower of Buddhist Incense in the Summer Palace 頤和園|颐和园[Yi2 he2 yuan2], Beijing | |
| 太鲁阁 | Taroko National Park in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县[Hua1 lian2 Xian4], Taiwan; Taroko ethnic gr… | |
| 尖阁列岛 | Senkaku Islands (Japanese name for the Diaoyu Islands 釣魚島|钓鱼岛[Diao4 yu2 Dao3]), also known… | |
| 高阁 | tall building; high shelf | |
| 出阁 | (of a girl) to marry (literary) | |
| 阁下 | your distinguished self; your majesty; sire | |
| 楼阁塔 | multistory pagoda | |
| 内阁 | (government) cabinet | |
| 阁员 | cabinet member | |
| 置诸高阁 | lit. place on a high shelf; to pay no attention to (idiom) | |
| 剑阁县 | Jiange, a county in Guangyuan City 廣元市|广元市[Guang3 yuan2 Shi4], Sichuan | |
| 亭台楼阁 | pavilions and kiosks (in Chinese gardens) | |
| 组阁 | to form a cabinet | |
| 雅阁 | Accord (Honda brand Japanese car model) |
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 | |
| 格 | form, pattern, standard | |
| 洛 | a river in the Shanxi province; a city | |
| 略 | approximate, rough; outline, summary; plan, plot | |
| 络 | web, net; to entangle | |
| 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 |