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供

gōng, gòng

supply, provide

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 共 represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

共 sound component

共  Sound component

gòng

  

together with

Evolution

供 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
供 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
供 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
供 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

供  

gōng

supply, provide for; offer in worship; to provide; to supply

供  

gòng

sacrificial offering; to confess

Most common words with 供
Freq.
Word
Meaning

提供

to offer

供

to provide

供应

to supply

供给

to furnish

口供

statement

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*k<r>oŋ

kjowng

gōng

furnish; serve, offer


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 45.8914% of movies

906th most common character in movies

550th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+4F9B

Shuowen

“供，設也。从人，共聲。一曰供給。”


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