Chinese symbol for “square”
The closest CC-CEDICT match for square is 格 (gé), defined as: square; lattice; grid; frame; compartment; partition; slot (within a larger unit); (bound form) standard; norm; specification; (bound form) character; disposition; moral quality; style; aesthetic tone; (bound form) rhetorical form; stylistic pattern; (bound form) (linguistics) grammatical case.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “square”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 方 | fāng | square; power or involution (math.) |
| 平方 | píng fāng | square (as in square foot, square mile, square root) |
| 方形 | fāng xíng | square; square-shaped |
| 正方形 | zhèng fāng xíng | square |
| 见方 (見方) | jiàn fāng | (measurement) (after a length) square (as in "10 feet square") |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 格.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 价格 (價格) | jià gé | price |
| 资格 (資格) | zī gé | qualifications; seniority |
| 风格 (風格) | fēng gé | style |
| 严格 (嚴格) | yán gé | strict; stringent; tight; rigorous |
| 性格 | xìng gé | nature; disposition |
| 合格 | hé gé | to meet the standard required; qualified |
See also: Japanese symbol for “square”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.