gé
pattern, frame
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 各 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
gé
pattern, standard, form; style; square; frame; rule; (legal) case; character; standard; pattern; (grammar) case; (classical) to obstruct; to hinder; (classical) to arrive; to come; (classical) to investigate; to study exhaustively
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤrak | kaek | gé | go to |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 68.1083% of movies
363rd most common character in movies
325th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+683C |
Shuowen | “格,木長皃。从木,各聲。” |
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