阁 (gé): pavilion
阁 (gé) is a Chinese character meaning “pavilion.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 门 (semantic) and 各 (phonetic). It ranks #1668 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 阁 door. Its radical form 门 (gate) appears in many related characters such as 门 (mén, door, gate), 间 (jiān, room, between), 闪 (shǎn, to flash, to dodge).
Definitions
- pavilion
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阁下noun | gé xià | your distinguished self |
| 阁楼noun | gé lóu | garret |
| 内阁noun | nèi gé | (government) cabinet |
| 束之高阁phrase | shù zhī gāo gé | tied up in a bundle on a high shelf |
| 阁员noun | gé yuán | cabinet member |
| 空中楼阁phrase | kōng zhōng lóu gé | pavilion in the air (idiom) |
| 雅阁 | yǎ gé | Accord (Honda brand Japanese car model) |
| 组阁verb | zǔ gé | to form a cabinet |
| 影子内阁noun | yǐng zi nèi gé | shadow cabinet |
| 内阁总理大臣 | nèi gé zǒng lǐ dà chén | formal title of the Japanese prime minister |
| 出阁verb | chū gé | (of a girl) to marry (literary) |
| 皇族内阁 | huáng zú nèi gé | Qing emergency cabinet set up in May 1911 to confront the Xinhai rebels |
| 太鲁阁族noun | tài lǔ gé zú | Taroko, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan |
| 置诸高阁 | zhì zhū gāo gé | lit. place on a high shelf |
| 高阁 | gāo gé | tall building |
阁 appears in 39 compound words: 15 as the first character, 64 as the last, and 21 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 阁 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (6)
pavilions, terraces and towers (in general); traditional Chinese architecture
pavilions, terraces and towers (in general); traditional Chinese architecture
Example Sentences
这座古阁建于明代，历史悠久。
Zhè zuò gǔ gé jiàn yú Míngdài, lìshǐ yōujiǔ.
This ancient pavilion was built in the Ming Dynasty and has a long history.
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你在阁楼上做了什么？
Nǐ zài gélóu shàng zuò le shénme?
What were you doing in the attic?
他们从地下室到阁楼都打扫了。
Tāmen cóng dìxiàshì dào gélóu dōu dǎsǎo le.
They cleaned everything, from the basement to the attic.
汤姆孩子们在阁楼。
Tāng mǔ háizimen zài gélóu.
Tom's kids were in the attic.
阁楼是一个狭长的低矮房间，光线昏暗，弥漫着雪松的香气。
Gélóu shì yī gè xiácháng de dī'ǎi fángjiān, guāngxiàn hūn'àn, mímàn zhe xuěsōng de xiāngqì.
The attic was a long, low-ceilinged room, dark and fragrant with the odor of the cedar.
Character Family
门 Radical Family — Characters sharing the gate radical
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