Kanji N1

閣: tower, tall building, palace

閣 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning tower, tall building, palace, written with 14 strokes. It is read カク (on), and has no common kun reading. Children in Japan learn it in grade 6. You will see it in 内閣 (ないかく, cabinet) and 閣僚 (かくりょう, cabinet ministers).

閣

Meanings

  • tower
  • tall building
  • palace
Strokes14
JLPT levelN1
School gradeGrade 6
Frequency#444 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • カク

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 閣

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

  • 内閣ないかく

    cabinet (of a government); ministry

    JLPT N1
  • 閣僚かくりょう

    cabinet ministers

  • 閣議かくぎ

    cabinet meeting

  • 組閣そかく

    formation of a cabinet

  • 入閣にゅうかく

    joining the cabinet

  • 閣内かくない

    (inside the) Cabinet

  • 楼閣ろうかく

    multistoried building; castle; palace; shrine

  • 倒閣とうかく

    overthrow of government

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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.