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格

gé

HSK 3.0 · 7–9

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gē

  1. used in 格登[ge1 deng1]
  2. used in 格格[ge1 ge1]

gé · gaak3 (Jyutping)

  1. square; lattice; grid; frame
  2. compartment; partition; slot (within a larger unit)
  3. (bound form) standard; norm; specification
  4. (bound form) character; disposition; moral quality; style; aesthetic tone
  5. (bound form) rhetorical form; stylistic pattern
  6. (bound form) (linguistics) grammatical case
  7. (literary) to correct; to rectify
  8. (literary) to arrive at; to reach
  9. (literary) to obstruct; to hinder
  10. (literary) to investigate exhaustively
  11. classifier for compartments, slots or cells within a larger unit

Definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · snapshot 2026-10-09. Display: consolidated readings, linked characters and marked pinyin. Original data

Character breakdown

格

Meaning
pattern, standard, form; style
Radical
木
Strokes
10
Components
⿰木各
Cangjie
DHER
Four-corner
4796.4

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