gōng
achievement
Phonosemantic compound. 力 represents the meaning and 工 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
gōng
achievement, merit, good result; meritorious deed or service; achievement; result; service; accomplishment; work (physics)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤoŋ | kuwng | gōng | work, effort |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 61.3968% of movies
662nd most common character in movies
452nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+529F |
Shuowen | “功，以勞定國也。从力，从工，工亦聲。” |
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