格

Stroke order

格 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 木竹水口 (DHER), composition ⿰木各)

• 鿚, 鿤, 䈷, 𠺝, 𣗛, 𨃶, 𩹿, 𥂌, 𪄎

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 524, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14749
• Dae Jaweon: page 912, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1203, character 6
• Unihan data for U+683C

Historical forms of the character 格
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *klaːɡ, *kraːɡ): semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 各 (OC *klaːɡ).

“to go; to come; to arrive”

Possibly cognate to Tibetan འགྲོ་བ། ('gro ba, “to go, walk, travel”), འགྲོ་བ་པོ ('gro ba po, “traveler”), འགྲོན་པ ('gron pa, “to go, travel”), མགྲོན (mgron, “guest”), མགྲོན་ཁང (mgron khang, “inn”) (Geilich, 1994). If so, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ɢʷrat (“to go through, to travel”). However, STEDT does not compare this to Tibeto-Burman lexical items under *grwat.

Baxter (1992) proposes that this is related to 路 (OC *ɡ·raːɡs, “road”). Compare 客 (OC *kʰraːɡ, “guest, visitor”), 旅 (OC *ɡ·raʔ, “travel, lodge”), and 行 (OC *ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋs, *ɡraːŋ, *ɡraːŋs, “to go”)

“to obstruct; to hinder”

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

“frame; square”

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

“style; form; pattern; standard; personality; character”

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Semantically derived from "square, frame" sense?”)

格

1. (literary, or in compounds) pattern; standard; form; style

   表格  ―  biǎogé  ―  table; form

   規格／规格  ―  guīgé  ―  standard; norm

2. square; frame
3. (literary, or in compounds) special property; personality; character (Can we add an example for this sense?) (particularly for the "personality" in literary form)

   風格／风格  ―  fēnggé  ―  personality; style

   性格  ―  xìnggé  ―  temperament; nature

4. (grammar) case

   共格  ―  gònggé  ―  comitative case

   益格  ―  yìgé  ―  benefactive case

5. (mathematics) lattice; grid; cross-hatch; checkers

   網格／网格  ―  wǎnggé  ―  mesh; lattice

   格子  ―  gézǐ  ―  checkers; lattice

6. (literary) to beat; to lash; to strike; to hit
7. (Cantonese) partitioned cell; cubicle

   臭格   ―  cau³ gaak³   ―  holding cell (literally, “stinky cell”)

   病格   ―  beng⁶ gaak³   ―  cubicle of a ward

   廁格／厕格   ―  ci³ gaak³   ―  toilet cubicle

8. (alt. form 假) (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to come; to arrive; to go to

   • 帝曰：「格，汝舜。詢事考言，乃言厎可績。」
     帝曰：「格，汝舜。询事考言，乃言厎可绩。」

     From: The Book of Documents, circa 4^th – 3^rd century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Dì yuē: “Gé, rǔ Shùn. Xún shì kǎo yán, nǎi yán zhǐ kě jì.”

     The Di said, "Come, you Shun. I have consulted you on affairs, and examined your words, and found that they can be carried into practice."

   • 月正元日，舜格于文祖。

     From: The Book of Documents, circa 4^th – 3^rd century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Yuèzhēng yuánrì, Shùn gé yú wénzǔ.

     On the first day of the first month, Shun went to (the temple of) the Accomplished Ancestor.

9. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to obstruct; to hinder
10. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to investigate
11. 22nd tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "resistance" (𝌛)
12. (Hokkien) breed; body type (of certain poultry and livestock)
13. (Hokkien) Classifier for graduation in a measuring container.
14. (Mainland China Hokkien) to examine; to explore; to inspect; to check out (the reason, principle, etc.)
15. (Mainland China Hokkien) to change the original structural layout (to increase number of spaces, etc.)
16. (Taiwanese Hokkien) Used in place names to describe the topography of a watershed.
17. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to build by laying bricks or stones
18. a surname

• (standard):

• (special property):

• (to beat):

• (to build by laying bricks or stones): 砌 (qì)

Onomatopoeic.

格

1. An onomatopoeia.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ka(:)k (“fork, branch, crotch”). Cognate with Apatani á-ha (“branch”), Mizo kâk (“fork of a tree”), Burmese အခက် (a.hkak, “tree branch”).

Attested since the Northern and Southern dynasties period. According to Schuessler (2007), the word may be much older as the graph already appeared in Zhou texts and was intended to mean "branch" (with 木 radical).

格

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) tree branch

Checked-tone variant of 個／个.

格 (Wu)

1. this

   格是啥西？

   What is this?

2. alternative form of 個 / 个 (possessive particle)

• “格”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

• Go-on: きゃく (kyaku)
• Kan-on: かく (kaku, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: こう (kō, Jōyō ^†)
• Kun: ただす (tadasu, 格す)、いたる (itaru, 格る)

• (Tokyo) かく (Heiban – )
• IPA^(key):

格(かく) • (kaku) 

1. status, rank
2. (grammar) case (of a word)

   何格を取るか？ ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. capacity
4. character
5. case (law)

格(いたる) • (Itaru) 

1. a male given name

格(かく) • (Kaku) 

1. a male given name

格(とおる) • (Tōru) 

1. a male given name

From Middle Chinese 格 (MC kaek).

格 (eumhun 바로잡을 격 (barojabeul gyeok))

1. hanja form^? of 격 (“status”)

格 (eumhun 가지 각 (gaji gak))

1. (literary Chinese) hanja form^? of 각 (“tree branch”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

格: Hán Nôm readings: cách, ghếch

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