闔
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Translingual
Han character
闔 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 日弓土戈廿 (ANGIT), four-corner 77107, composition ⿵門盍)
Related characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1340, character 2
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41452
- Dae Jaweon: page 1844, character 23
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4312, character 1
- Unihan data for U+95D4
Chinese
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 闔 | |
|---|---|
| Shang | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Oracle bone script | Small seal script |
Characters in the same phonetic series (盍) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Etymology 1
| trad. | 闔 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 阖 | |
| alternative forms | 閤／合 闔／阖 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: hé
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: hé
- Wade–Giles: ho2
- Yale: hé
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: her
- Palladius: хэ (xɛ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /xɤ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: hap6
- Yale: hahp
- Cantonese Pinyin: hap9
- Guangdong Romanization: heb6
- Sinological IPA (key): /hɐp̚²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ha̍p
- Tâi-lô: ha̍p
- Phofsit Daibuun: hap
- IPA (Xiamen): /hap̚⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /hap̚²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /hap̚¹²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /hap̚⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /hap̚⁴/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: hab8
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ha̍p
- Sinological IPA (key): /hap̚⁴/
- (Hokkien)
- Middle Chinese: hap
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*ɡaːb/
Definitions
闔
- (literary) door; door leaf
- Synonym: 扉 (fēi)
- (literary) all of; whole of; entire
- (literary) to close; to shut
- alternative form of 盍 (hé, “why not”)
- a surname
Compounds
Etymology 2
| trad. | 闔 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 阖 | |
| alternative forms | 㧁 | |
Pronunciation
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kha̍h / khah
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kha̍h
- Tâi-lô: kha̍h
- Phofsit Daibuun: qah
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰaʔ²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰaʔ¹²¹/
- IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /kʰaʔ⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Philippines)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khah
- Tâi-lô: khah
- Phofsit Daibuun: qaq
- IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Philippines): /kʰaʔ⁵/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
Note:
- Quanzhou:
- khah - to close;
- kha̍h - to be detained.
Definitions
闔
- (Southern Min) to close, leaving it slightly open
- 闔門／阖门 [Hokkien] ― kha̍h mn̂g [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― close the door, but leave it slightly open
- (Mainland China Hokkien) to be detained; to be held up; to get stuck
References
- Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04395
- “闔”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
Japanese
Kanji
闔
Readings
- Go-on: ごう (gō)←がふ (gafu, historical)
- Kan-on: こう (kō)←かふ (kafu, historical)
- Kun: とびら (tobira, 闔)、とじる (tojiru, 闔じる)←とぢる (todiru, 闔ぢる, historical)、すべて (subete, 闔て)[1]
Compounds
- 闔国 (kōkoku): nationwide; entire country
References
- ^ “闔”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia][1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025
Korean
Hanja
闔 • (hap) (hangeul 합, revised hap, McCune–Reischauer hap, Yale hap)
Vietnamese
Han character
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