gōng
palace
Pictograph of a building (宀) with multiple rooms.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k(r)uŋ | kjuwng | gōng | dwelling; palace; note of scale |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 14.2880% of movies
1388th most common character in movies
982nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5BAE |
Shuowen | “宮,室也。从宀,躳省聲。” |
Sources
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