gōng

give

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
龍 meaning component

  Meaning component

lóng

  

dragon

共 sound component

  Sound component

gòng

  

together with

Evolution

龔 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
龔 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

gōng

give, present; reverential

() 

Gōng

surname Gong

Most common words with 龔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

surname Gong

龚自珍

Gong Zizhen (1792-1841), Chinese man of letters, calligrapher and poet

龚古尔

Goncourt (name)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*k<r>oŋ

kjowng

gōng

respectful


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3184th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

22

Simplified

Unicode

U+9F94

Shuowen

“龔,給也。从共,龍聲。”


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