閣 — tower, tall building, palace

かく閣 tower

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 14 strokes

U+95A3 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #444 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1752 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

tower
tall building
palace

word

かく kaku On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

内(ない) 閣(かく) naikaku cabinet (government) 閣(かく) 議(ぎ) kakugi cabinet meeting 閣(かく) 僚(りょう) kakuryou cabinet minister

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

もん門 gate #169

かく各 each

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#169 門 gate