gǒng
two hands
Pictograph of two hands.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k(r)oŋʔ | kjowngX | gǒng | join the hands |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 3 |
Unicode | U+5EFE |
Shuowen | “廾,竦手也。从,從又。,楊雄說廾从兩手。” |
Sources
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