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格局

géjú

pattern; layout; scope; vision

A cutaway house with four rooms and a red sofa
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Characters in this word

格 gé

Strokes
10
Radical
木 — tree
Made of
木 tree 各 individual
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 格

局 jú

Strokes
7
Radical
尸 — body, corpse
Made of
尺 ruler, tape-measure 口 mouth
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

Example phrases

  • 城市的格局决定了公共交通是否能够真正替代私家车。 Chéngshì de géjú juédìng le gōnggòng jiāotōng shìfǒu nénggòu zhēnzhèng tìdài sījiāchē. A city's layout determines whether public transport can genuinely replace private cars.
  • 这套房子的格局很合理,每个房间都有阳光。 Zhè tào fángzi de géjú hěn hélǐ, měi ge fángjiān dōu yǒu yángguāng. This flat has a very sensible layout, and every room gets sunlight.
  • 做大事的人,眼光和格局都不能太小。 Zuò dà shì de rén, yǎnguāng hé géjú dōu bù néng tài xiǎo. Someone who aims at big things cannot have too narrow an outlook or too small a vision.

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