gòng
offer tribute
Phonosemantic compound. 贝 represents the meaning and 工 represents the sound. Simplified form of 貢.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 贡
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to contribute | ||
tribute | ||
Saigon, capital of former South Vietnam | ||
tribute | ||
to offer tribute |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 7.1280% of movies
2203rd most common character in movies
1548th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8D21 |
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