HSK 6 · Verbs

搁 gē “to put” in Chinese

Traditional 擱

What 搁 means

  1. to put
  2. to place
  3. to put aside
  4. to leave
  5. to shelve
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to postpone
  • to add
  • to put in

How to say 搁

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale搁gē1st tone, high and level

搁 in a sentence

  1. 你喝茶搁糖吗？

    Nǐ hē chá gē táng ma?

    Do you take sugar in your tea?

    Sentence #12568738 from Tatoeba

  2. 咖啡里少搁点儿糖。

    Kāfēi lǐ shǎo gē diǎnr táng.

    Don’t put too much sugar in the coffee.

    Sentence #12568742 from Tatoeba

  3. 我们不得不把游戏搁到下周日了。

    Wǒmen bùdébù bǎ yóuxì gē dào xià zhōurì le.

    We’ve had to put the game off till next Sunday.

    Sentence #816459 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 搁 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 搁 (gē) with each of its parts in a different colour
搁gēto put; to place; to leave
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
  • 阁part of the characterSound part

How to write 搁

搁 12 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

搁 (gē) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 搁 (gē). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 搁

More words: Common Verbs

改良gǎiliáng · to improve干扰gānrǎo · to disturb干涉gānshè · to interfere干预gānyù · to intervene割gē · to cut隔离gélí · to isolate更正gēngzhèng · to correct跟随gēnsuí · to follow

FAQs

搁 (gē) means “to put” or “to place”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it gē: gē with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 搁 is written 擱. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ge with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 搁 from the suggestions. Typing ge into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
搁 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.