Chinese Character Wiki
躬

gōng

body

Phonosemantic compound. 身 represents the meaning and 弓 represents the sound.

Components
身 meaning component

身  Meaning component

shēn

  

body

弓 sound component

弓  Sound component

gōng

  

bow

Evolution

躬 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
躬 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
躬 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

躬  

gōng

body; personally, in person; oneself; personally; to bow

躬 (躳) 

gōng

old variant of 躬[gōng]

Most common words with 躬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鞠躬

to bow

躬

body

躬身

to bow

鞠躬尽瘁

to bend to a task and spare no effort (idiom); striving to the utmost

事必躬亲

to attend to everything personally

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

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Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*k(r)uŋ

kjuwng

gōng

body, person


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.4988% of movies

2787th most common character in movies

2650th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+8EAC

Shuowen

“躳，身也。从身，从呂。躬，躳或从弓。”


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