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Kanji Detail for 閤 - "small gate"
閤
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Meaning
閤 means "small gate." Also associated with tall building, wicket.
Tall building - A palace; a grand hall.
Small gate - A small door within a palace.
Wicket - A side door next to a main gate.
Room - A woman's chamber; bedroom.
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Tattoo check: 閤
- Verified meaning: small gate
- Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
- Also carries these associations: tall building, wicket
A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.
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Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
small side gate
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
small side door; chamber
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
variant of 合[he2]
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
chamber; shelf; side-door
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A side door beside the main gate. 閨閣 (inner chambers) was originally written as 閤. Also interchangeable with 臺閣 (terrace pavilion). In Han, Gongsun Hong as Prime Minister built the Eastern Pavilion to invite worthy men. Later, the Eastern Pavilion became the place where the chief minister received wise scholars. This is the origin of the Ming Dynasty's Grand Secretary of the Eastern Pavilion. Therefore the old term 入閣 (enter the cabinet) was written as 閤.
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Strokes
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