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閤

gé, hé

small side door

Phonosemantic compound. 門 represents the meaning and 合 represents the sound.

Components
門 meaning component

門  Meaning component

mén

  

door

合 sound component

合  Sound component

hé, gě

  

to join

Evolution

閤 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
閤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
閤 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
閤 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
閤 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

𬮤 (閤) 

gé

small side door; chamber

合 (閤) 

hé

variant of 合[hé]

閤  

gé

side door; variant of 閣|阁[gé]; pavilion; cabinet; boudoir

閤  

hé

variant of 闔|阖[hé]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ˤ[o]p

kop

gé

small gate


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7104th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

𬮤

Unicode

U+95A4

Shuowen

“閤，門旁戶也。从門，合聲。”


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