Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 閣

Modern (Beijing) reading: gé

Preclassic Old Chinese: kāk

Classic Old Chinese: kāk

Western Han Chinese: kāk

Eastern Han Chinese: kāk

Early Postclassic Chinese: kāk

Middle Postclassic Chinese: kāk

Late Postclassic Chinese: kāk

Middle Chinese: kâk

English meaning : be one over the other

Russian meaning[s]: 1) палаты; дворец; 2) правительственный орган; кабинет министров; 3) подставка; этажерка; [gē] отложить в сторону, положить, вм. 擱

Comments: A later specialized meaning is: ("something put in layers") > 'book-stand; several-storeyed building'. Regular Sino-Viet. is các. Schüssler thinks that the word is probably the same as 各 *kāk 'each' (q.v.): "each one for each one"?

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 169

Four-angle index: 3382

Karlgren code: 0766 f

Vietnamese reading: gác

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Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1935

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 閣

MC description : 宕開一入鐸見

ZIHUI: 7041 0183

Beijing: kô 12

Jinan: kǝ 2

Xi'an: kô 11

Taiyuan: kǝʔ 41; kaʔ 41

Hankou: ko 12

Chengdu: ko 12

Yangzhou: kâʔ 4

Suzhou: koʔ 41

Wenzhou: ko 41

Changsha: ko 4

Shuangfeng: kû 12

Nanchang: kɔk 41

Meixian: kɔk 41

Guangzhou: kɔk 43

Xiamen: khap 41 (lit.); koʔ 41

Chaozhou: koʔ 41

Fuzhou: kɔʔ 41

Shanghai: koʔ 4

Zhongyuan yinyun: kau 42

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