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格 (gé): meaning and stroke order

格 (gé) means square, frame, rule, (legal) case, style, character, standard, pattern, (grammar) case.

格

Simplified
格
Traditional
格 (same form)
Pinyin
gé · gē

Stroke order of 格

格

  • gē used in 格登[ge1 deng1]; used in 格格[ge1 ge1]
  • gé square; frame
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 格

  1. gé
    • square
    • frame
    • rule
    • (legal) case
    • style
    • character
    • standard
    • pattern
    • (grammar) case
    • (classical) to obstruct
    • to hinder
    • (classical) to arrive
    • to come
    • (classical) to investigate
    • to study exhaustively
  2. gē
    • used in 格登[ge1 deng1]
    • used in 格格[ge1 ge1]

Radical and structure

格
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 10 strokes · 木 on the left, 各 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 格

格 in our stories

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  • 就这样,一个拼命地加,一个拼命地吃。马修的脸越来越红,腰带也松了一格。

    jiù zhèyàng yí gè pīnmìng de jiā yí gè pīnmìng de chī Mǎxiū de liǎn yuèláiyuè hóng yāodài yě sōng le yì gé

    And so one kept ordering for all he was worth, and the other kept eating for all he was worth. Matthew's face grew redder, and his belt went out a notch.

    From the story The banquet that never ended HSK 6

Stories using 格

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).