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肱

gōng

forearm

Originally written as 厷, which depicts a hand with a circular mark on the arm to indicate the forearm. The ⺼ (meat) component was added later to clarify the meaning.

Components
⺼ meaning component

⺼  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

厷 sound,iconic component

厷  Sound Iconic component

gōng, hóng

  

forearm

Depicts a hand (𠂇) with a circular mark on the arm to indicate the forearm.

Evolution

肱 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
肱 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
肱 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
肱 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
肱 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

肱  

gōng

forearm; upper arm; arm

Most common words with 肱
Freq.
Word
Meaning

肱

arm

肱骨

humerus

股肱

trusted aide

曲肱而枕

fig. content with simple things

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ʷˤəŋ

kwong

gōng

(upper) arm


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4921st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+80B1

Shuowen

“厷，臂上也。从又，从古文。厶，古文厷，象形。肱，厷或从肉。”


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