Stroke order

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

• 鿚, 鿤, 䈷

• 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 inHan)	Liushutong (compiled inMing)
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 toTibetanའགྲོ་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, fromProto-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”

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

“frame; square”

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

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

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology 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)specialproperty;personality;character(Can we add anexample 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) tobeat; tolash; tostrike; tohit
7. (Cantonese)partitionedcell;cubicle

   臭格[Cantonese]  ― cau³gaak³[Jyutping]  ― holding cell (literally, “stinkycell”)

   病格[Cantonese]  ― beng⁶gaak³[Jyutping]  ― cubicle of a ward

   廁格／厕格[Cantonese]  ― ci³gaak³[Jyutping]  ―  toiletcubicle

8. (alt. form假)(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) tocome; toarrive; togo to

   • 帝曰：「格，汝舜。詢事考言，乃言厎可績。」[Classical Chinese,trad.]
     帝曰：「格，汝舜。询事考言，乃言厎可绩。」[Classical Chinese,simp.]

     From: TheBook of Documents, circa 4^th – 3^rd centuryBCE, translated based onJames Legge's version

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

     TheDi said, "Come, youShun. 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。[Classical Chinese,trad. andsimp.]

     From: TheBook of Documents, circa 4^th – 3^rd centuryBCE, translated based onJames Legge's version

     Yuèzhēng yuánrì, Shùngé yú wénzǔ.[Pinyin]

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

9. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) toobstruct; tohinder
10. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) toinvestigate
11. 22ndtetragram of theTaixuanjing; "resistance" (𝌛)
12. (Hokkien)breed;bodytype(of certain poultry and livestock)
13. (Hokkien)Classifier forgraduation in ameasuringcontainer.
14. (Mainland China Hokkien) toexamine; toexplore; toinspect; tocheck out(the reason, principle, etc.)
15. (Mainland China Hokkien) tochange theoriginalstructurallayout(to increase number of spaces, etc.)
16. (Taiwanese Hokkien)Used in place names to describe thetopography of awatershed.
17. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) tobuild bylayingbricks orstones
18. asurname

• (standard):

• (special property):

• (to beat):

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

Onomatopoeic.

格

1. Anonomatopoeia.

FromProto-Sino-Tibetan*s-ka(:)k(“fork, branch, crotch”). Cognate withApataniá-ha(“branch”),Mizokâk(“fork of a tree”),Burmeseအခက်(a.hkak,“tree branch”).

Attested since theNorthern and Southern dynasties period. According toSchuessler (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)treebranch

Checked-tone variant of個／个.

格(Wu)

1. this

   格是啥西？[Hangzhounese,trad. andsimp.]

   What isthis?

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

• “格”, in漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1],香港中文大學 (theChinese 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[kàkú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ka̠kɯ̟]

格(かく)• (kaku) 

1. status,rank
2. (grammar)case (ofaword)

   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 malegiven name

格(かく)• (Kaku) 

1. a malegiven name

格(とおる)• (Tōru) 

1. a malegiven name

• “^△格”, in漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese),The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation,2015–2025

FromMiddle Chinese格 (MC kaek).