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閤

閤

See also: 合, 閣, and 阁

Translingual

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 閤
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (合) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
龕 *kʰuːm
媕 *quːm, *qromʔ, *qɯːm, *qramʔ, *qɯːb
頜 *ɡuːmʔ, *kuːb
答 *tkuːb
畣 *tkuːb
荅 *tkuːb
嗒 *tuːb, *tʰoːb
褡 *tuːb, *toːb
撘 *tuːb
搭 *tuːb, *tʰoːb
榙 *tkuːb, *ɡuːb
佮 *tkʰuːb, *kuːb, *quːb, *quːb
蛤 *kuːb
鴿 *kuːb
合 *kuːb, *ɡuːb
郃 *kuːb, *ɡuːb
匌 *kuːb, *kʰuːb
鉿 *kuːb
閤 *kuːb
鞈 *kuːb, *kruːb
韐 *kuːb, *kruːb
鮯 *kuːb
哈 *ŋɡuːb
姶 *quːb, *quːb
欱 *qʰuːb, *qʰruːb
盒 *ɡuːb
耠 *ɡuːb
詥 *ɡuːb
塔 *tʰuːb
鞳 *tʰoːb
劄 *rtuːb
跲 *kruːb, *kob, *ɡob
袷 *kruːb, *ŋkob
餄 *kruːb
恰 *kʰruːb
帢 *kʰruːb
洽 *ɡruːb
祫 *ɡruːb
珨 *ɡruːb
烚 *ɡruːb
歙 *qʰjob, *qʰrub
湁 *tkʰub
拾 *ɡjub
給 *krub
翕 *qʰrub
噏 *qʰrub
潝 *qʰrub
熻 *qʰrub
嬆 *qʰrub
翖 *qʰrub
闟 *qʰrub

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

Han character

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

  1. small side door
  2. chamber

References

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

Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 閤

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 閤
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 合 (160)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古沓切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʌp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kəp̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɒp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kəp̚/
Li
Rong		 /kᴀp̚/
Wang
Li		 /kɒp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kăp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ge
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 閤
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 gé
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kop ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ˤ[o]p/
English small gate

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 閤
Reading # 1/1
No. 4960
Phonetic
component		 合
Rime
group		 緝
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 閤
Old
Chinese		 /*kuːb/

Definitions

閤

  1. (literary) side door
  2. A surname​.

Etymology 2

trad. 閤
simp. 合

Pronunciation

Definitions

閤

  1. Alternative form of 闔／阖 (hé).

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 閤 – see 閣.
(This character, 閤, is a variant form of 閣.)

References

Japanese

Kanji

閤

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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