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格 - N3 Kanji

Meaning of 格 意味

status, rank, capacity, character, case (law, grammar)

格 is one of the most commonly used Japanese kanji, and it also has a lot of special readings in addition to the standard onyomi and kunyomi readings.

ONYOMI 音読み

KUNYOMI 訓読み

カク kaku
コウ kou
キャク kyaku
ゴウ gou

Examples

将軍の堂々とした格幅は誰でも威圧される。The general’s massive presence awes everyone.
thatには、主格、目的格の2つしかなく、格による形の変化はない。‘That’ has only the two cases, nominative and objective, and it does not inflect depending on the case.

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