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"?
Radical: 169
Four-angle index: 3382
Karlgren code: 0766 f
Vietnamese reading: gác
