■ radical

gè

individual

How it’s built

Pictograph of a foot (夂) entering an opening, (口), the opposite of 出 (exit). Based on the original meaning "enter", unrelated to the current meaning "each", which is a phonetic loan.

夂

iconic

(foot); stop — 夂 is a component form of 止.

口

iconic

mouth

Through the ages

Oracle bone script

Bronze script

Appears in

Characters that use 各 as a component, most common first.

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