gōng
centipede
Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 公 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4109th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+86A3 |
Shuowen | “蜙，蜙蝑。以股鳴者。从虫，松聲。蚣，蜙或省。” |
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
