Chinese Character Wiki
共

gòng

together with

Pictograph of two hands holding up a vessel.

Components
◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts a vessel being held up.

廾 iconic component

廾  Iconic component

gǒng

  

two hands

Evolution

共 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
共 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
共 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
共 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

共  

gòng

together with, all, total; to share; common; general; together; total; altogether; abbr. for 共產黨|共产党[Gòng​chǎn​dǎng], Communist party

Most common words with 共
Freq.
Word
Meaning

共

common

共同

common

公共

public

一共

altogether

共有

in all

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)

巽

Sound component in 16 characters (4 verified)

供 洪 恭 巷 哄 鬨 拱 粪 龔 龚 烘 珙 衖 蕻 輂 栱

Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)

暴

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*N-k(r)oŋʔ-s

gjowngH

gòng

together, all


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 57.7447% of movies

767th most common character in movies

330th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+5171

Shuowen

“共，同也。从廿、廾。，古文共。”


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