gōng
respectful
Phonosemantic compound. ⺗ represents the meaning and 共 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 恭
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
greetings | ||
respectful | ||
to praise | ||
May you have a prosperous New Year! (New Year's greeting) | ||
deferential |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k<r>oŋ | kjowng | gōng | respectful |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 29.4410% of movies
1158th most common character in movies
1742nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+606D |
Shuowen | “恭，肅也。从心，共聲。” |
Sources
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