闔

闔 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 日弓土戈廿 (ANGIT), four-corner 7710₇, composition ⿵門盍)

• 阖 (Simplified Chinese)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1340, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41452
• Dae Jaweon: page 1844, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4312, character 1
• Unihan data for U+95D4

闔

1. (literary) door; door leaf

   Synonym: 扉 (fēi)

2. (literary) all of; whole of; entire

   alt. forms: 閤 (hé)／合 (hé)

   Synonym: 全 (quán)

   闔府／阖府  ―  héfǔ  ―  the whole family

3. (literary) to close; to shut

   alt. forms: 閤 (hé)／合 (hé)

4. Alternative form of 盍 (hé, “why not”)
5. a surname.

闔

1. (Southern Min) to close, leaving it slightly open

   闔門／阖门 [Hokkien]  ―  kha̍h mn̂g [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  close the door, but leave it slightly open

2. (Mainland China Hokkien) to be detained; to be held up; to get stuck

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04395
• “Entry #12689”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. to close; to shut
2. whole; entire; all
3. Alternative form of 扉 (“door”)

• Go-on: ごう (gō)^{←がふ (gafu, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かふ (kafu, historical)}
• Kun: とびら (tobira, 闔)

• 闔国(こうこく) (kōkoku): nationwide; entire country

闔 • (hap) (hangeul 합, revised hap, McCune–Reischauer hap, Yale hap)

1. to close; to shut
2. whole; entire; all

闔: Hán Nôm readings: hạp

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