Chinese Character Wiki

觥

gōng

a cup made of horn obstinate

Components
角 meaning component

角  Meaning component

jiǎo, jué

  

horn

horn

光 sound component

光  Sound component

guāng

  

light

Evolution

觥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
觥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
觥 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

觥  

gōng

a cup made of horn obstinate; big; cup made of horn; horn wine container

Most common words with 觥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

觥筹交错

a big (drinking) party

觥

big

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ʷˤraŋ

kwaeng

gōng

drinking horn


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4532nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+89E5

Shuowen

“觵，兕牛角可以飲者也。从角，黃聲。其狀觵觵，故謂之觵。觥，俗觵从光。”


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