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格

Cantonese · source Jyutpinggaak3#

Meanings · gaak3

  1. to fight or battle
Cantonese · source Jyutpinggaak3#

Meanings · gaak3

  1. square
  2. frame
  3. rule
  4. (legal) case
  5. style
  6. character
  7. standard
  8. pattern
  9. (grammar) case
  10. (classical) to obstruct
  11. to hinder
  12. (classical) to arrive
  13. to come
  14. (classical) to investigate
  15. to study exhaustively
  16. shelf
  17. division
  18. to combat
  19. to hit
  20. to examine
  21. a shop
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Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.

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Reading & tones

Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.

Same syllable, six tones

gaakgaak1—gaak2—格gaak3squaregaak4—gaak5—gaak6—

Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.

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Written characters

格

Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.

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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries

CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:

  • 格 gē CC-CEDICT · Mandarinused in 格登 gē dēng; used in 格格 gē gē
  • 格 gé CC-CEDICT · Mandarinsquare; lattice; grid; frame; compartment; partition; slot (within a larger unit); (bound form) standard; norm; specification; (bound form) character; disposition; moral quality; style; aesthetic tone; (bound form) rhetorical form; stylistic pattern; (bound form) (linguistics) grammatical case; (literary) to correct; to rectify; (literary) to arrive at; to reach; …

A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.

CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: ge2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 23 senses · 1 Cantonese reading

Rime Cantonese 粵拼

gaak3

Cantonese word readings for 格. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

character · Etymology 1

  1. (literary, or in compounds) pattern; standard; form; style
  2. square; frame
  3. (literary, or in compounds) special property; personality; character (particularly for the "personality" in literary form)
  4. (grammar) case
  5. (mathematics) lattice; grid; cross-hatch; checkers
  6. (literary) to beat; to lash; to strike; to hit
  7. (Cantonese) partitioned cell; cubicle
  8. (alt. form 假) (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to come; to arrive; to go to
  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
  19. (informal, computing) Clipping of 格式化 (géshìhuà, “to format (a disk, etc.)”)

character · Etymology 2

  1. An onomatopoeia.

character · Etymology 3

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

character · Etymology 4

  1. (Wu) this
  2. (Wu, alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 個 /个 (possessive particle)

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Original source comment: adapted from cc-cedict

Mandarin comparison: CC-CEDICT 2026-10-13, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source reading differences and six-tone sets: computed by zimai from Unihan 17.0.0 (Unicode License V3).

Exact source records & identity格 格 [ge2] {gaak3} /to fight or battle/

SHA-256: f5dfb49d7c7b4c666c3582b195c65ffcc500fae0036f4f80d71977be7c14d4ce

格 格 [ge2] {gaak3} /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/shelf/division/to combat/to hit/to examine/a shop/ # adapted from cc-cedict

SHA-256: 4699a6ddc9859065357541931879be36cccf98e4dc6c4b984fabf73ab5f1c00d