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As the title says, is [閣閣](https://jisho.org/word/%E9%96%A3%E9%96%A3) a real
word? I've searched through weblio古語辞典 and
[BCCWJ](https://bonten.ninjal.ac.jp/bccwj/string_search?commit=%E6%A4%9C%E7%B4%A2&string_search%5Bgenres%5D=PN_core%2CPN%2CPM_core%2CPM%2CPB_core%2CPB%2CLB_core%2CLB%2COW%2COB%2COC_core%2COC%2COY_core%2COY%2COL%2COM%2COP%2COT%2COV&string_search%5Bwords%5D=%E9%96%A3%E9%96%A3&string_search%5Byears%5D=1971%2C1972%2C1973%2C1974%2C1975%2C1976%2C1977%2C1978%2C1979%2C1980%2C1981%2C1982%2C1983%2C1984%2C1985%2C1986%2C1987%2C1988%2C1989%2C1990%2C1991%2C1992%2C1993%2C1994%2C1995%2C1996%2C1997%2C1998%2C1999%2C2000%2C2001%2C2002%2C2003%2C2004%2C2005%2C2006%2C2007%2C2008&utf8=%E2%9C%93)
and I've gotten no results that are not 内閣閣僚. Out of pure curiosity, I just
want to find a real example of this word being used (or just word testimony
that a native speaker has heard or used it). Then again, maybe it's just
another fob in jisho.org's source dictionary.
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Is 閣閣 a real word?
I haven't heard or seen it. This seems to be more of an (old?) Chinese
onomatopoeia ({{zh-cn:阁阁}}). Most Japanese articles that contain this word
(e.g., [this](http://www7b.biglobe.ne.jp/%7Erakusyotei/kansi-27.html) and
[this](http://www.randdmanagement.com/c_chi/ch_244.htm)) seem to be related to
old Chinese literature. I checked 青空文庫全文検索 (which contains older materials
than BCCWJ) and found no relevant results.
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Ditto @[naruto's](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/users/5010/) findings.

> Is this a real word?

Yes.

In Chinese, apparently.

The top hits at
[https://www.google.com/search?q="閣閣"](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22%E9%96%A3%E9%96%A3%22)
are all for Chinese sites discussing the word, implying that this isn't
terribly well known in that language community either.

Note also the simplified Chinese script version:

# 阁阁

> Then again, maybe it's just another fob in jisho.org's source dictionary.

Sure looks like a goof. While this does apparently appear in texts that are
nominally Japanese, as naruto notes, these are all in Chinese contexts --
texts deliberately evincing a Classical Chinese mood. As such, in linguistic
terms, this could be viewed more as [code
switching](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching), where writers /
readers / speakers of Language A who are also knowledgeable about Language B
deliberately mix in some words from Language B.

From what I'm seeing, I would classify this as Classical Chinese, not
Japanese, and not in use in modern Chinese either.
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