• 325th most frequent character
  • Adds ~0.07% to your reading coverage
  • 1 dictionary entry
  • Appears in 290 words
  • Component in 0 characters

Decomposition

1Once
2Radical
3Graphical

Pinyin & Meaning

1. (ge2)square • frame • rule • (legal) case • style • character • standard • pattern • (classical) to obstruct • to hinder • (classical) to arrive • to come • (classical) to investigate • to study exhaustively

Pronunciation Clues

1. Pronunciation clue for (ge2)The component is pronounced as '' (ge4). It has the same pronunciation as the character, but differs on tone.
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Example Words

Common

人格 
价格 (價格)
性格 
格外 
格格 
资格 (資格)
风格 (風格)

Uncommon

出格 
及格 
合格 
品格 
严格 (嚴格)
定格 
布拉格 
格子 
格局 
格式 
格式化 
格林 
格格不入 
格言 
格调 (格調)
格斗 (格鬥)
空格 
英格兰 (英格蘭)
苏格拉底 (蘇格拉底)
苏格兰 (蘇格蘭)
表格 
规格 (規格)
香格里拉 
体格 (體格)

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  • 483rd most frequent character
  • Adds ~0.04% to your reading coverage
  • 2 dictionary entries
  • Appears in 152 words
  • Component in 3 characters

Decomposition

1Once
No glyph available
3Graphical

Pinyin & Meaning

1. (ju2)narrow
2. (ju2)office • situation • classifier for games: match, set, round etc

Pronunciation Clues

There are no phonetic clues for this character.
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Appears In

also appears in:

Example Words

Common

局长 (局長)
结局 (結局)
饭局 (飯局)
骗局 (騙局)

Uncommon

一局 
布局 (佈局)
局限 (侷限)
僵局 
全局 
公安局 
出局 
分局 
大局 
定局 
局势 (局勢)
局部 
局限于 (局限於)
局面 
平局 
政治局 
格局 
残局 (殘局)
气象局 (氣象局)
牌局 
环保局 (環保局)
当局 (當局)
税务局 (稅務局)
总局 (總局)
药局 (藥局)
药监局 (藥監局)
规划局 (規劃局)
警察局 
邮局 (郵局)
邮政局 (郵政局)
开局 (開局)

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Decomposition Levels:
Level 1 - Once: Only divided once. So only two components.
Level 2 - Radical: Radical Decomposition. The character gets decomposed into its lowest radical components. For the complete list visit the Radical wikipedia page.
Level 3 - Graphical: Graphical Decomposition. Shows all the strokes & lowest level of components that make up the character.
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