Kanji N3

格: status, rank, capacity

格 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning status, rank, capacity, written with 10 strokes. It is read カク, コウ, キャク (on), and has no common kun reading. Children in Japan learn it in grade 5. You will see it in 性格 (せいかく, character) and 格好 (かっこう, shape).

格

Meanings

  • status
  • rank
  • capacity
  • character
  • case (law, grammar)
Strokes10
JLPT levelN3
School gradeGrade 5
Frequency#281 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • カク
  • コウ
  • キャク
  • ゴウ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • None in common use

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 格

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 性格せいかく

    character (of a person); personality

    JLPT N3
  • 格好かっこう

    shape; form; figure; posture; pose

    JLPT N4
  • 合格ごうかく

    passing (an exam); pass; success; passing grade

    JLPT N3
  • 価格かかく

    price; value; cost

    JLPT N3
  • 格差かくさ

    qualitative difference; disparity; gap

    JLPT N1
  • 資格しかく

    qualifications; requirements; capabilities

    JLPT N1
  • 本格ほんかく

    original method; original procedure

    JLPT N1
  • 規格きかく

    standard; norm

    JLPT N1

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.