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  *格* | 格* | *格
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 / (literary) to correct; to rectify / (literary) to arrive at; to reach / (literary) to obstruct; to hinder / (literary) to investigate exhaustively / classifier for compartments, slots or cells within a larger unit
HSK 7-9
structure / pattern / layout
HSK 7-9
especially; particularly; even more than usual / extra; additional
HSK 4
(math.) lattice
(computing) to format
giggle
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  *格* | 格* | *格
used in 格登 / used in 格格
(coll.) to factory-reset a phone (or other device)
maxim
Grinnell College (private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, USA)
Gree (brand)
(Tw) Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
to wrestle
form / specification / format
HSK 7-9
(idiom) inharmonious / incompatible
HSK 7-9
Greenwich
the Greenwich meridian
Gloucestershire county in southwest England
Georgia (country)
gingham
Greenwich (former location of Greenwich observatory, at zero longitude) / refers to Greenwich mean time
princess (loanword from Manchu, used in the Qing Dynasty)
lattice / check (pattern of squares)
Gregorian calendar
forms of versification / conventions regarding set number of words and lines, choice of tonal patterns and rhyme schemes for various types of Classical Chinese poetic composition / metrical verse
Gloucester city in southwest England
Glasgow, Scotland
(loanword) gestalt
checked woolen fabric; plaid
Guernsey (Channel Islands)
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Gram negative (of bacteria) / also written 革蘭氏陰性|革兰氏阴性
Granada, Spain
King Gesar, hero of a Tibetan and Mongolian epic cycle
Graz (city in Austria)
Grey / Gray
Corinthians
Gray's Anatomy (medical reference book)
tartan; plaid
Grammy Award (US music industry award)
style (of art or literature) / form / one's work style / moral character
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Grimstad (city in Agder, Norway)
to parry / to fend off / to block (a blow)
cubicle
grizzly (mining)
Ganesha (the elephant-headed God in Hinduism, son of Shiva and Parvati)
Gdansk, city on Baltic in north Poland
grille
case (linguistics)
Greenwich
Green or Greene (name)
Greymouth, town in New Zealand / also written 格雷默斯
Gryffindor (Harry Potter)
(idiom) to kill on sight (without fear of prosecution)
Grozny, capital of Chechen Republic, Russia
Greenland
Greenland
Grenoble (French town)
Gestalt therapy / holistic therapy
Groningen, province and city in the Netherlands
Gregory or Grigory (name)
Gulf Port (Florida or Mississippi)
Golmud or Ge'ermu city (Tibetan: na gor mo grong khyer) in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州, Qinghai
(onom.) laughing sound / glug-glug haha!
Gera (city in Germany)
to study the underlying principle to acquire knowledge (idiom); pursuing knowledge to the end
Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism
to study the underlying principles, esp. in neo-Confucian rational learning 理學|理学 / word for Western natural sciences during late Qing
Grenada, island country in the Caribbean Sea (Tw)
Earl Grey tea
Grenada
Golmud or Ge'ermu city (Tibetan: na gor mo grong khyer) in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州, Qinghai
to study the underlying principle to acquire knowledge (abbr. for 格物致知) / word for Western natural sciences during late Qing
Alan Greenspan (1926-), US economist
(loanword) kvass
GLONASS (Globalnaya Navigatsionaya Satelitnaya Sistema or Global Navigation Satellite System), the Russian equivalent of GPS
Graham or Graeme (name)
Georgian (person)
Grant (name)
variant of 咯咯
variant of 咯噔


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