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拱

gǒng

fold hands on breast

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 共 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

共 sound component

共  Sound component

gòng

  

together with

Evolution

拱 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

拱  

gǒng

fold hands on breast; bow, salute; to cup one's hands in salute; to surround; to arch; to dig earth with the snout; arched

Most common words with 拱
Freq.
Word
Meaning

拱

to arch

拱手

(fig.) submissive

拱门

arched door

拱形

arch

拱桥

arch bridge

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*k(r)oŋʔ

kjowngX

gǒng

join the hands


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.7299% of movies

3062nd most common character in movies

2573rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+62F1

Shuowen

“拱，斂手也。从手，共聲。”


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