閤

閤 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 日弓人一口 (ANOMR), four-corner 7760₁, composition ⿵門合)

• 𮆤, 𨶼

• 閣 (Orthodox traditional form of 閤 for the pronunciation gé in mainland China)
• 阁 (Simplified form for the pronunciation gé in mainland China)
• 合 (Simplified form for the pronunciation hé in mainland China)
• 𬮤 (Nonstandard form in simplified Chinese)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1334, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41301
• Dae Jaweon: page 1840, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4297, character 7
• Unihan data for U+95A4

Historical forms of the character 閤
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kuːb) : semantic 門 (“door”) + phonetic 合 (OC *kuːb, *ɡuːb).

Compare 蓋 (OC *kaːbs, *kaːb, *ɡaːb, “to cover”) (STEDT).

閤

1. (literary) side door
2. throne room
3. (alt. form 閣) chamber; pavilion
4. (alt. form 閣) female quarters
5. a surname

This character is considered a variant form of 閣／阁 (gé) in mainland China which is succeeded by 阁 as its simplified form.

閤

1. (alt. form 合, 闔) to close; to shut

   把眼睛閤上。／把眼睛合上。  ―  Bǎ yǎnjīng hé shàng.  ―  to shut one's eyes

2. (alt. form 闔) all of; whole of; entire

   Synonym: 全 (quán)

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04386
• “閤”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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• Go-on: こう (kō)^{←こふ (kofu, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かふ (kafu, historical)}
• Kun: くぐりど (kugurido, 閤)

閤 • (hap) (hangeul 합, revised hap, McCune–Reischauer hap, Yale hap)

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閤: Hán Nôm readings: các

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