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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
gé | ge2
English translation
square
frame
rule
(legal) case
style
character
standard
pattern
(classical) to obstruct
to hinder
(classical) to arrive
to come
(classical) to investigate
to study exhaustively
form, pattern, standard

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Number of strokes

10

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí

Learning hint

wood

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

木各

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

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Bié de 牙关 yá guān 咬得那么 nà me jǐn ,连上下颚 xià è dōu téng le .

Bigger's teeth clamped so tight that his jaws ached.

蚀刻 shí kè 出来 chū lái de 金属 jīnshǔ zhà shì hěn 脆弱 cuìruò de ,容易 róngyì 变形 biàn xíng zhòu shé huò 撕裂 sī liè .

The etched metal - film grids are very fragile and easy to distort, wrinkle or tear.

ō , bīn 格莱先生 Xiānsheng de Chē yāo sòng de 朋友 péngyou dào 麦里 tún , 斯脱夫妇 fūfù yòu shì yǒu Chē .

Oh! but the gentlemen will have Mr. Bingley's chaise to go to Meryton; and the Hursts have no horses to theirs.

价格 jiàgé 美元 Měi yuán zhì shí 美元 Měi yuán děng .

Prices ranged from 5 dollars to 10 dollars.

我们 wǒmen zhǐ yāo gěi 稍加 diǎn fēn , jiù Néng 勉强 miǎnqiǎng 及格 jígé .

If we mark him up a tiny bit, he'll just get through.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
价格 jiàgé price價格
风格 fēnggé style風格
square
严格 yángé strict嚴格
资格 zīgé seniority資格
性格 xìnggé nature性格 xìnggé
合格 hégé qualified合格 hégé
苏格兰 Sū gé lán Scotland蘇格蘭
人格 réngé personality人格 réngé
格局 géjú structure格局 géjú
英格兰 Yīng gé lán England英格蘭
表格 biǎogé form表格 biǎogé
格外 géwài especially格外 géwài
格式 géshì form格式 géshì
规格 guīgé standard規格
及格 jígé to pass an exam or a test及格 jígé
巴格达 Bā gé dá Baghdad, capital of Iraq巴格達
格林 Gé lín Green or Greene (name)格林 Gé lín
布拉格 Bù lā gé Prague, capital of Czech Republic布拉格 Bù lā gé
格斗 gé dòu to wrestle格鬥
格雷 Gé léi Grey格雷 Gé léi
格兰特 Gé lán tè Grant (name)格蘭特
玛格丽特 Mǎ gé lì tè Margaret (name)瑪格麗特
格子 gé zi lattice格子 gé zi

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Decomposition

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