閣 — kanji meaning “tower”
閣
tower, tall building, palace
- Meanings
- tower, tall building, palace
- On'yomi
- カク (kaku)
- Kun'yomi
- —
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- 6
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #444 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 169
- Chinese reading
- gé — Chinese character page
Words with 閣
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 内閣 | ないかく naikaku | cabinet (of a government); ministry |
| 閣僚 | かくりょう kakuryou | cabinet ministers |
| 閣下 | かっか kakka | your Excellency; his Excellency; her Excellency |
| 閣議 | かくぎ kakugi | cabinet meeting |
| 組閣 | そかく sokaku | formation of a cabinet |
| 入閣 | にゅうかく nyuukaku | joining the cabinet |
| 天守閣 | てんしゅかく tenshukaku | castle tower; keep; donjon |
| 仏閣 | ぶっかく bukkaku | Buddhist temple |
| 楼閣 | ろうかく roukaku | multistoried building; castle; palace |
| 倒閣 | とうかく toukaku | overthrow of government |
| 閣内 | かくない kakunai | (inside the) Cabinet |
| 閣外 | かくがい kakugai | outside the Cabinet |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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