gǒng
bind, secure
Phonosemantic compound. 革 represents the meaning and 巩 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 鞏
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to consolidate | ||
sclera (white of the eye) | ||
Gong Li (1965-), PRC female film star | ||
secure | ||
Gongyi county level city in Zhengzhou 鄭州|郑州[Zhèngzhōu], Henan |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k(r)oŋʔ | kjowngX | gǒng | bind with leather straps |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2384th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+978F |
Shuowen | “鞏，以韋束也。《易》曰：‘鞏用黃牛之革。’从革，巩聲。” |
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