gòng
together with
Pictograph of two hands holding up a vessel.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)
Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*N-k(r)oŋʔ-s | gjowngH | gòng | together, all |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 57.7447% of movies
767th most common character in movies
330th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+5171 |
Shuowen | “共,同也。从廿、廾。,古文共。” |
Sources
裘錫圭 "Chinese Writing" p.189
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