格 - That Tree's STATUS Wouldn't Be So High If Not For That Stick Propping It Up

Readings & Meanings:

カク

コウ

norm, status

Common Usage:

合格

人格

格が違う

Examples:

日本語検定２級に合格したい。

そんな事をいうなんて、彼の人格を疑うね。

俺は貴様のような奴とは格が違う。

Translations:

I want to pass the second-level Japanese certification test.

If he says such things, you have to doubt his character.

I am different (in class, in intelligence, on all levels) from people like you.

Radical:

Radical 木.

Phonetic 各. (see previous posts) Alone, 各 means each/every, but the pictograph shows a leg hitting a hard box. Take from that the idea of "hard."

So you've got a tree, which is supported by a hard something to be propped up.

References:

http://www.kanjinetworks.com/indices/radindex.html
http://www.thejapanesepage.com/node/kanji/ka.htm