kòng
control
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 空 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
kòng
accuse, charge; control; to control; to accuse; to charge; to sue; to invert a container to empty it; (suffix) (slang) buff; enthusiast; devotee; -phile or -philia
Most common words with 控
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
control | ||
to control | ||
accusation | ||
to monitor | ||
to own a controlling number of shares in a company |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kʰˤoŋ-s | khuwngH | kòng | pull (on bow or reins) |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 63.2388% of movies
559th most common character in movies
780th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+63A7 |
Shuowen | “控,引也。从手,空聲。《詩》曰:‘控于大邦。’匈奴名引弓控弦。” |
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