gōng

body

Evolution

躳 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
躳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
躳 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

 

gōng

body; self

() 

gōng

old variant of [gōng]

Most common words with 躳
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鞠躬

to bow

body

躬身

to bow

鞠躬尽瘁

to bend to a task and spare no effort (idiom); striving to the utmost

事必躬亲

to attend to everything personally

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*k(r)uŋ

kjuwng

gōng

body, person


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.4988% of movies

2787th most common character in movies

2650th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+8EB3

Shuowen

“信,誠也。从人,从言,會意。,古文从言省。訃,古文信。”


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