各

Stroke order

各 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹水口 (HER), four-corner 2760₄, composition ⿱夂口)

各 (OC *klaːɡ) (by Zhengzhang Shangfang) is frequently used to demonstrate the presence of consonant cluster initials in Old Chinese:

• (k/g-): 客, 愘, 揢, 閣(阁), 擱(搁), 格, 鉻(铬), 咯, 胳, 硌, 骼, 袼, 挌, 茖, 佫, 敋, 鮥, 臵, 餎(饹), 觡, 鵅, 蛒, 恪
• (l-): 洛, 洜, 落, 絡(络), 酪, 烙, 珞, 路, 略/畧, 餎(饹), 駱(骆), 雒, 峈, 硌, 詻, 鮥, 笿

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 174, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3281
• Dae Jaweon: page 387, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 583, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5404

Historical forms of the character 各
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 夂 (“sole of foot”) + 口 – to come, to enter; original form of 𢓜 and 格 (OC *klaːɡ, *kraːɡ). The mouth could be referred to the entrance of a cavern or building (see 高, 去 and 谷; however, this is not the case in 向). Compare 出.

Sino-Tibetan. Derived from 舉 (OC kaʔ) with distributive suffix -k. Cognate with Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ka (“all”) (Schuessler, 2007)

各

1. each; every (determiner)

   各種各樣／各种各样  ―  gèzhǒnggèyàng  ―  all sorts

   各位  ―  gèwèi  ―  everyone present; you all; everybody

   Synonym: 每 (měi)

2. each (adverb)

   各盡其責／各尽其责  ―  gè jìn qí zé  ―  each fulfils his/her responsibilities

3. a surname

各

1. (dialectal, derogatory) sticking out; odd; unusual
2. Used in 自各兒／自各儿.

• (sticking out):

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. each
2. every
3. either

• Go-on: かく (kaku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: かく (kaku, Jōyō)
• Kun: おのおの (onoono, 各, Jōyō)、おの (ono, 各)

From Middle Chinese 各 (MC kak).

• (Tokyo) かく [káꜜkù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ka̠kɯ̟]

各(かく) • (kaku-) 

1. each

各 (eumhun 각각 각 (gakgak gak))

1. hanja form^? of 각 (“each”)

各 (các)

1. Nôm form of các (“Plural marker”).

   各𫰇咳各娘

   Các noọng ới các nàng

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[1] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

各: Hán Việt readings: các^[1][2][3], cách^[1]
各: Nôm readings: các^[1][2], gác^[1][3], cắc^[1][4], gạc^[1][4], gật^[3][4]

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